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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.
Mark 10:37-39
New International Version
Mark 10:37-39
New International Version
37 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”(A)
38 “You don’t know what you are asking,”(B) Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup(C) I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”(D)
39 “We can,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,(E)
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