The Request of James and John

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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

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He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

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But Yeshua answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

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He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

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When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.

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But Yeshua summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

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It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

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Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

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even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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