20. After the meal he took another cup of wine in his hands. Then he said, “This is my blood. It is poured out for you, and with it God makes his new agreement.
21. The one who will betray me is here at the table with me!
22. The Son of Man will die in the way that has been decided for him, but it will be terrible for the one who betrays him!”
23. Then the apostles started arguing about who would ever do such a thing.
24. The apostles got into an argument about which one of them was the greatest.
25. So Jesus told them:Foreign kings order their people around, and powerful rulers call themselves everyone's friends.
26. But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant.
27. Who do people think is the greatest, a person who is served or one who serves? Isn't it the one who is served? But I have been with you as a servant.
28. You have stayed with me in all my troubles.
29. So I will give you the right to rule as kings, just as my Father has given me the right to rule as a king.
30. You will eat and drink with me in my kingdom, and you will each sit on a throne to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.