29. Jesus answered, "Throwing this kind of spirit out requires prayer."
30. From there Jesus and his followers went through Galilee, but he didn’t want anyone to know it.
31. This was because he was teaching his disciples, "The Human One will be delivered into human hands. They will kill him. Three days after he is killed he will rise up."
32. But they didn’t understand this kind of talk, and they were afraid to ask him.
33. They entered Capernaum. When they had come into a house, he asked them, "What were you arguing about during the journey?"
34. They didn’t respond, since on the way they had been debating with each other about who was the greatest.
35. He sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "Whoever wants to be first must be least of all and the servant of all."
36. Jesus reached for a little child, placed him among the Twelve, and embraced him. Then he said,
37. "Whoever welcomes one of these children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me isn’t actually welcoming me but rather the one who sent me."
38. John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone throwing demons out in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.”