Mark 9:30-37

International Children’s Bible

Jesus Talks About His Death

³⁰ Then Jesus and his followers left that place and went through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where he was ³¹ because he wanted to teach his followers alone. He said to them, “The Son of Man will be given to men who will kill him. After three days, he will rise from death.” ³² But the followers did not understand what Jesus meant. And they were afraid to ask.

Who Is the Greatest?

³³ Jesus and his followers went to Capernaum and went into a house there. Then Jesus said to them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” ³⁴ But the followers did not answer, because their argument on the road was about which one of them was the greatest.

³⁵ Jesus sat down and called the 12 apostles to him. He said, “If anyone wants to be the most important, then he must be last of all and servant of all.”

³⁶ Then Jesus took a small child and had him stand among them. He took the child in his arms and said, ³⁷ “If anyone accepts children like these in my name, then he is also accepting me. And if he accepts me, then he is also accepting the One who sent me.”