Mark 9:36-38

EasyEnglish Bible

³⁶ Then Jesus brought a child to stand in the middle of them all. He took hold of the child and he said to the disciples, ³⁷ ‘If someone accepts a child like this because of me, then that person also accepts me. If he accepts me, then he is not only accepting me. He is also accepting my Father God, who sent me.’^[a]

³⁸ John said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we saw a man who was causing bad spirits to go out of people. He was using your authority to do it. But he is not in our group. So we told him that he must not do it.’