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For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
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You are those who have stood by me in my trials.
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And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
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so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.
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But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
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But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”
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Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.”
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Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”“Nothing,” they answered.
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He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
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It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’[a]; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”