Matthew 20:21-23

Living Bible

²¹ “What is your request?” he asked. She replied, “In your Kingdom, will you let my two sons sit on two thrones^[a] next to yours?”

²² But Jesus told her, “You don’t know what you are asking!” Then he turned to James and John and asked them, “Are you able to drink from the terrible cup I am about to drink from?”

“Yes,” they replied, “we are able!”

²³ “You shall indeed drink from it,” he told them. “But I have no right to say who will sit on the thrones next to mine. Those places are reserved for the persons my Father selects.”