The Child Among Them

Jesus Reveals His Glory · Mark 9

Story guide: Jesus welcoming a child into the center of a reflective circle of disciples. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Mark 9:30-37.

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30And from there they went on through Galilee, and he did not want anyone to know.

31For he was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being handed over into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and after he is killed, after three days he will rise.”

32But they did not understand the statement, and they were afraid to ask him.

33And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house, he was asking them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

34But they kept silent, because on the road they had argued with one another about who was greater.

35And sitting down, he called the twelve and says to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.”

36And taking a child, he set him in their midst, and taking him in his arms, he said to them:

37Whoever receives one of such children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me receives not me, but the one who sent me.

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