27. for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
28. `And ye--ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,
29. and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
30. that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
31. And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
32. and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
33. And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'
34. and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'