25. When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again."
26. After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"
27. But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.
28. When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, "Why could we not drive it out?"
29. And He said to them, "This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer."
30. From there they went out and began to go through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know about it.
31. For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later."
32. But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.
33. They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, "What were you discussing on the way?"
34. But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest.
35. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."
36. Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,
37. "Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me."
38. John said to Him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us."
39. But Jesus said, "Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.
40. For he who is not against us is for us.
41. For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward.
42. "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.
43. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,
44. [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]