Mark 9:28-47

²⁸And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself — 'Why were we not able to cast it forth?'

²⁹And he said to them, 'This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

³⁰And having gone forth thence, they were passing through Galilee, and he did not wish that any may know,

³¹for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, 'The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,'

³²but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

³³And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, 'What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'

³⁴and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

³⁵and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, 'If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

³⁶And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

³⁷'Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

³⁸And John did answer him, saying, 'Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

³⁹And Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

⁴⁰for he who is not against us is for us;

⁴¹for whoever may give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward;

⁴²and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

⁴³'And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire — the unquenchable —

⁴⁴where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

⁴⁵'And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire — the unquenchable —

⁴⁶where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.

⁴⁷And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire —