Mark 10:29-31, 42-45 (St. Jacob)

Mark 10:29-31, 42-45 (St. Jacob)

^{(Read 7/26 for the Repose of St. Jacob (Netsvetov), Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska (1864)}

Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,  who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.  But many that are first will be last, and the last first.”
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.  But it shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant,  and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.  For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”