but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

So he sat down and called the Twelve, and said to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he must be last of all, and the servant of all."

But many who are first shall be last, and the last, first."

He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "'They will reverence my Son.'

And last of all the woman too died. In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her as wife."