Who Is the Greatest

Free Bible Version (FBV)

Mat 18:1–5

1 Around that time the disciples came to Jesus, and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
2 Jesus called over a small child. He had the child stand in front of them.
3 “I tell you the truth, unless you change the way you think and become like little children, you won't ever enter the kingdom of heaven,” he told them.
4 “But whoever humbles themselves and becomes like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 Whoever accepts a little child like this in my name accepts me.

33 They arrived at Capernaum, and once they were inside the house where they were staying, Jesus asked them, “What were you talking about on the way?”
34 But they didn't say anything because they had been arguing over who was the most important.
35 Jesus sat down and called the twelve disciples together. “If anyone wants to be first, he has to be the very last, the servant of everyone else,” he told them.
36 He took a small child and had the child stand right in the middle of them. Then he picked up and hugged the child, and told them,
37 “Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me doesn't welcome me but the one who sent me.”

46 Then an argument started among the disciples about which of them was the greatest.
47 But Jesus, knowing what they were arguing about, picked up and placed a small child next to him.
48 Then he said to them, “Anyone who accepts this little child in my name accepts me, and anyone who accepts me accepts the one who sent me. Whoever is least among you all is the greatest.”