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Mark 10:37-39
Contemporary English Version
Mark 10:37-39
Contemporary English Version
37 and they answered, “When you come into your glory, please let one of us sit at your right side and the other at your left.”[a]
38 (A) Jesus told them, “You don't really know what you're asking! Are you able to drink from the cup[b] that I must soon drink from or be baptized as I must be baptized?”[c]
39 “Yes, we are!” James and John answered.
Then Jesus replied, “You certainly will drink from the cup from which I must drink. And you will be baptized just as I must!
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- 10.37 right side … left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king.
- 10.38 drink from the cup: In the Scriptures a “cup” is sometimes used as a symbol of suffering. To “drink from the cup” would be to suffer.
- 10.38 as I must be baptized: Baptism is used with the same meaning that “cup” has in this verse.
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