Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

"I solemnly tell you that among all of woman born no greater has ever been raised up than John the Baptist; yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than he.

For whoever wants to save his higher life will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will find the higher life.

And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude fol lowed him.