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For which is the greater--he who sits at table, or he who waits on him? Is it not he who sits at table? But my position among you is that of one who waits on others.
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You however have remained with me amid my trials;
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and I covenant to give you, as my Father has covenanted to give me, a Kingdom--
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so that you shall eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones as judges over the twelve tribes of Israel.
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"Simon, Simon, I tell you that Satan has obtained permission to have all of you to sift as wheat is sifted.
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But *I* have prayed for *you* that your faith may not fail, and you, when at last you have come back to your true self, must strengthen your brethren."
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"Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."
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"I tell you, Peter," said Jesus, "that the cock will not crow to-day till you have three times denied that you know me."
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Then He asked them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" "No, nothing," they replied.
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"But now," said He, "let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.
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For I tell you that those words of Scripture must yet find their fulfilment in me: `And He was reckoned among the lawless'; for indeed that saying about me has its accomplishment."