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For who is greater? The one reclining at the table? or the one who serves? It's the one reclining at the table, isn't it? But I myself am among you like one who serves.
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"You are the ones who have stayed with me throughout my trials.
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Just as my Father gave me the right to rule, so I give you an appointment,
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namely, to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom and to sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Isra'el.
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"Shim`on, Shim`on, listen! The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat!
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But I prayed for you, Shim`on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!"
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Shim`on said to him, "Lord, I am prepared to go with you both to prison and to death!"
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Yeshua replied, "I tell you, Kefa, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me."
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He said to them, "When I sent you out without wallet, pack or shoes, were you ever short of anything?" "Not a thing," they answered.
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"But now," he said, if you have a wallet or a pack, take it; and if you don't have a sword, sell your robe to buy one.
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For I tell you this: the passage from the Tanakh that says, `He was counted with transgressors,'i has to be fulfilled in me; since what is happening to me has a purpose."