The second<n id="1" />

Not so with you;<n id="1" /> instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader<n id="2" /> like the one who serves.<n id="3" />

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table,<n id="1" /> or the one who serves? Is it not<n id="2" /> the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one<n id="3" /> who serves.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now the parable means<n id="1" /> this: The seed is the word of God.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but<n id="1" /> the one who humbles<n id="2" /> himself will be exalted.&#8221;p>

And the Lord said, &#8220;Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!<n id="1" />

But when John rebuked Herod<n id="1" /> the tetrarch<n id="2" /> because of Herodias, his brother&#8217;s wife,<n id="3" /> and because of all the evil deeds<n id="4" /> that he had done,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The one who listens<n id="1" /> to you listens to me,<n id="2" /> and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects<n id="3" /> the one who sent me.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

The expert in religious law<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;The one who showed mercy<n id="2" /> to him.&#8221; So<n id="3" /> Jesus said to him, &#8220;Go and do<n id="4" /> the same.&#8221;p>

So<n id="1" /> Pilate asked Jesus,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Are you the king<n id="3" /> of the Jews?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;You say so.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:<n id="1" />p>

The Lord replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise manager,<n id="2" /> whom the master puts in charge of his household servants,<n id="3" /> to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?

Jesus answered him, &#8220;It is written, &#8216;<b><i>Mani>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>does not live by bread alonei>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;A certain creditor<n id="1" /> had two debtors; one owed him<n id="2" /> five hundred silver coins,<n id="3" /> and the other fifty.

For everyone who asks<n id="1" /> receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door<n id="2" /> will be opened.

Whoever is not with me is against me,<n id="1" /> and whoever does not gather with me scatters.<n id="2" />p>

Nothing is hidden<n id="1" /> that will not be revealed,<n id="2" /> and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

Blessed is that slave<n id="1" /> whom his master finds at work<n id="2" /> when he returns.

Then<n id="1" /> the slave said, &#8216;Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.&#8217;<n id="2" />

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Why do you call me good?<n id="2" /> No one is good except God alone.