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,
32and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.`
33And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;`