Mark 9:28-47

²⁸And after He entered into a house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why were we not able to cast it out?”

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

³⁰And having gone out from there they were passing through Galilee, and He did not wish that anyone should know.

³¹For He was teaching His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise on the third day.”

³²But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.

³³Then He came to Capernaum. And being in the house He asked them, “What were you disputing about with one another on the road?”

³⁴But they were silent, for on the road they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.

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

³⁶And taking a child, He stood him in their midst. And taking him in His arms, He said to them,

³⁷“Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but Him who sent Me.”

³⁸Now John answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow with us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.”

³⁹But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name that will be able to soon speak evil of Me.

⁴⁰For he who is not against you is for you.

⁴¹For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you are Christ's, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.

⁴²“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea.

⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter into life maimed, than to enter having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

⁴⁴where ‘Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’

⁴⁵And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

⁴⁶where ‘Their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’

⁴⁷And if your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It would be better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the fiery hell,