Matthew 20

Suffering and Service

20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached him with her sons.  * 20:20–28 Mk 10:35–45; Lk 22:24–27 She knelt down to ask him for something.  * 20:20 Mt 4:21; 8:221 "What do you want? " he asked her.

"Promise,"  * 20:21 Lit Say she said to him, "that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom."  * 20:21 Mt 16:28; 19:28; 25:31,34; Lk 23:42

22 Jesus answered, "You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? "* 20:22 Other mss add and (or) to be baptized with the baptism which I am baptized? ",* 20:22 Is 51:22; Jr 49:12; Mk 14:36

"We are able," they said to him.

23 He told them, "You will indeed drink my cup,* 20:23 Other mss add and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized.but to sit at my right and left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."* 20:23 Ac 12:2; Rv 1:9