27. For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves.
28. “And you are the ones who have remained with me in my trials,
29. and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred on me,
30. that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
31. “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat,
32. but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
33. But he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
34. And he said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me!”
35. And he said to them, “When I sent you out without a money bag and a traveler’s bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” And they said, “Nothing.”
36. And he said to them, “But now the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler’s bag. And the one who does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy one.
37. For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was counted with the criminals.’ For indeed, what is written about me is being fulfilled.”
38. So they said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords!” And he said to them, “It is adequate.”
39. And he went away and proceeded, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.
40. And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not enter into temptation.”