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James and John: 37 Master, grant that we might sit on either side of You, one at Your right hand and one at Your left, when You come into the glory of Your kingdom.

Jesus: 38 You don’t know what it is you’re asking. Can you drink from the cup I have to drink from or be ritually washed in baptism with the baptism[a] that awaits Me?

James and John: 39 We can.

Jesus: You will indeed drink from the cup I drink from and be baptized with the baptism[b] that awaits Me.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:38 Literally, immersion
  2. 10:39 Literally, be immersed with the immersion

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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