26 This must not be the way among you;+ but whoever wants to become great among you must be your minister,+ 27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.+

35 So he sat down and called the Twelve and said to them: “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and minister of all.”+

48 and said to them: “Whoever receives this young child on the basis of my name receives me also; and whoever receives me also receives the One who sent me.+ For the one who conducts himself as a lesser one among all of you is the one who is great.”+