Mark 9:28-36

²⁸Well upon His entering a house His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn't we cast it out?”

²⁹He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing except prayer and fasting.”

³⁰Having gone out from there they were passing through Galilee, and He did not want anyone to know;

³¹because He was teaching His disciples and saying to them, “The Son of the Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and once killed he will rise on the third day.”

³²But they were not understanding this information, yet were afraid to ask Him.

³³Then He came to Capernaum; and once in the house He asked them, “What were you debating among yourselves on the road?”

³⁴But they kept silent, because on the road they had debated among themselves who was greater.

³⁵So He sat down, called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

³⁶Then He took a child and stood him in their midst, and embracing him said to them,