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And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.
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And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.
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And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;
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but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
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for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
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`And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,
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and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
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that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
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And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
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and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
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And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'