1. At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?'
2. And Jesus having called near a child, did set him in the midst of them,
3. and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
4. whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.
5. `And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,
6. and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.
7. `Woe to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!