25And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;
26but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
27for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
28`And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,
29and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
30that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.`
31And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,