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.
43. “And if your hand makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands, to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
44. where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
45. “And if your foot makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two feet, to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
46. where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
47. “And if your eye makes you stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the reign of Elohim with one eye, than having two eyes, to be thrown into the fire of Gehenna,
48. where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
49. “For everyone shall be seasoned with fire, and every offering shall be seasoned with salt.