26. The spirit cried out and convulsed him greatly. But it came out of him, and he was as dead, so that many said, “He is dead.”
27. But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
28. When He had entered the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29. He said to them, “This kind cannot come out except by prayer and fasting.”
30. They departed from there and passed through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know it.
31. For He was teaching His disciples, saying, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. After He is killed, He will rise the third day.”
32. But they did not understand the teaching and were afraid to ask Him.
33. He came to Capernaum. And being in the house, He asked them, “What was it that you disputed among yourselves on the way?”
34. But they kept silent, for on the way they had disputed among themselves who was the greatest.
35. He sat down and called the twelve. And He said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
36. He took a child and set him in their midst. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them,
37. “Whoever receives one of these children in My name receives Me. And whoever receives Me receives not Me, but Him who sent Me.”
38. John answered Him, “Teacher, we saw one who does not follow us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he was not following us.”
39. But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who does a miracle in My name can quickly speak evil of Me.
40. For he who is not against us is for us.
41. Truly I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, will not lose his reward.
42. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
43. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched,
44. where ‘their worm does not die,and the fire is not quenched.’
45. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched,