29. And He said to them, “It is impossible for this kind to come out except through prayer and fasting.”
30. And going from there they passed through Galil. And He did not wish anyone to know,
31. for He was teaching His taught ones and said to them, “The Son of Aḏam is being delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him. And having been killed, He shall rise the third day.”
32. But they did not understand the word, and they were afraid to ask Him.
33. And they came to Kephar Naḥum, and having come in the house He asked them, “What was it you disputed among yourselves on the way?”
34. And they were silent, for on the way they had disputed with one another who was the greatest.
35. And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
36. And He took a little child and set him in their midst, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,
37. “Whoever receives one of such little children in My Name receives Me. And whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but the One who sent Me.”
38. And Yoḥanan said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone, who does not follow us, casting out demons in Your Name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.”
39. And יהושע said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My Name is able to readily 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 in My Name, because you are of Messiah, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.
42. “And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.