18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock him[a] and flog him[b] and crucify him,[c] and on the third day he will be raised.”

A Request by the Mother of James and John

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and[d] kneeling down she asked[e] something from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:19 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Matthew 20:19 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 20:19 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Matthew 20:20 Here “and” is supplied because the participle (“kneeling down”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style
  5. Matthew 20:20 Here the participle (“asked”) is translated as a finite verb because of English style