Bible Verses About The Apostles: Humility urged upon

And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, `What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'

and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

`Whoever may receive one of such children in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth not receive me, but Him who sent me.'

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater.

And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

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;

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.

`And ye--ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'