Luke 9:48

Jesus says receiving a child in His name is receiving Him and the Father, and the least is the one who is great. Greatness in the kingdom is found in humble, lowly service.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Pet 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Mark 9:37“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”
• Luke 22:26But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
• John 13:20Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
• Matt 10:40–42He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
• Matt 23:11–12But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
• Matt 18:14Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
• 1 Th 4:8Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
• 1 Pet 5:3–4neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
• John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• John 12:44–45Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
• Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
• Luke 22:30that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• Matt 25:45“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
• Luke 7:28“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”
• Matt 18:5–6Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
• Matt 19:28Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
• Rev 21:14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
• Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

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