Mark 9:28-36

²⁸When Jesus came into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

²⁹He said to them, “This kind cannot be cast out except by prayer.”

³⁰They went out from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know where they were,

³¹for he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will put him to death. When he has been put to death, after three days he will rise again.”

³²But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

³³Then they came to Capernaum. After he entered the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

³⁴But they were silent. For they had been arguing with one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

³⁵Sitting down, he called the twelve together and he said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

³⁶He took a little child and placed him in their midst. He took him in his arms and said to them,