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22 But Jesus said, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?”[a]

The sons answered, “Yes, we can.”

23 Jesus said to them, “You will drink from my cup. But I cannot choose who will sit at my right or my left; those places belong to those for whom my Father has prepared them.”

24 When the other ten followers heard this, they were angry with the two brothers.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:22 drink . . . drink Jesus used the idea of drinking from a cup to ask if they could accept the same terrible things that would happen to him.

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