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19 and then they will hand him over to foreigners[a] who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.

A Mother's Request

(Mark 10.35-45)

20 The mother of James and John[b] came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her. 21 Jesus asked her what she wanted, and she said, “When you come into your kingdom, please let one of my sons sit at your right side and the other at your left.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 20.19 foreigners: The Romans, who ruled Judea at this time.
  2. 20.20 mother of James and John: The Greek text has “mother of the sons of Zebedee” (see 26.37).
  3. 20.21 right side … left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king.

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