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But they kept quiet; because on the way, they had been arguing with each other about who was the greatest.
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He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all."
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He took a child and stood him among them. Then he put his arms around him and said to them,
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"Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me."
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Yochanan said to him, "Rabbi, we saw a man expelling demons in your name; and because he wasn't one of us, we told him to stop."
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But Yeshua said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name will soon after be able to say something bad about me.
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For whoever is not against us is for us.
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Indeed, whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you come in the name of the Messiah -- yes! I tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.
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"Whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust me -- it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown in the sea.
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If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to Gei-Hinnom, to unquenchable fire!