Mar 9:33-37, Luk 9:46-48 | ISV | STEP | True Greatness Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?”

Mark 9:33-37

33 True Greatness Matthew 18:1-5; Luke 9:46-48Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} was at home, he asked the disciples, ^{▼▼Lit. them} “What were you arguing about on the road?”Matt 18:1; Luke 9:46; 22:24 34 But they kept silent, for on the road they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

35 So he sat down and called the twelve. He told them, “If anyone wants to be first he must be last of all and servant of all.”Matt 20:26-27; Mark 10:43 36 Then he took a little child and had him stand among them. He took him in his arms and said to them,Matt 18:2; Mark 10:16 37 “Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”Matt 10:40; Luke 9:48

Luke 9:46-48

46 True Greatness Matthew 18:1-5; Mark 9:33-37Now an argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest.Matt 18:1; Mark 9:34 47 But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. 48 Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest.”Matt 10:40; 18:5; 23:11-12; Mark 9:37; John 12:44; 13:20