Mark 9:28-36

²⁸When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn't we drive it out?”

²⁹“A spirit of this kind,” he said, “can be driven out only by prayer.”

³⁰Leaving that place, Jesus and his disciples went on their way through Galilee; but he did not wish anyone to know it,

³¹for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them — “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days.”

³²But the disciples did not understand his meaning and were afraid to question him.

³³They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

³⁴But they were silent; for on the way they had been arguing with one another which was the greatest.

³⁵Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and servant of all.”

³⁶Then Jesus took a little child, and placed it in the middle of them. Taking it in his arms, he said to them,