16. I can guarantee this truth: Slaves are not superior to their owners, and messengers are not superior to the people who send them.
17. If you understand all of this, you are blessed whenever you follow my example.
18. “I’m not talking about all of you. I know the people I’ve chosen ⌊to be apostles⌋. However, I’ve made my choice so that Scripture will come true. It says, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’
19. I’m telling you now before it happens. Then, when it happens, you will believe that I am the one.
20. “I can guarantee this truth: Whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”