But Jesus called them to him, and said, You know that the rulers of the gentiles exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them; but it shall not be so among you.

How then would the Scriptures be accomplished, that it must be so?

but it shall not be so with you. But whoever wishes to be great among you, let him be your minister;

But you shall not be so. But let the greater among you be as the younger, and the chief as he that serves.

I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so.

But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.