Mark 9:28-47

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,

³⁷“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not only me, but the One who sent me.”

³⁸So John answered Him saying, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, one who doesn't follow us; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us.”

³⁹But Jesus said: “Do not forbid him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me.

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

⁴¹Further, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, I tell you with certainty, he will by no means lose his reward.

⁴²“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe into me to fall, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

⁴³Further, if your hand is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life maimed than having both hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire—

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

⁴⁵And if your foot is causing you to fall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into the Life lame than having both feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire—

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

⁴⁷And if your eye is causing you to fall, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than having both eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire—