Mark 10:37–45
37They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in your glory.”↗
38But Jesus said to them,“You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”↗
39They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them,“You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;↗
40but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”↗
41When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.↗
42Jesus summoned them and said to them,“You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.↗
43But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.↗
44Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.↗
45For the Son of Man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”↗
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