17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem,he took the twelve disciples aside,and on the way he said to them,18“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes,and they will condemn him to death,19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock,to scourge, and to crucify;and the third day he will be raised up.”
20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons,kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.21He said to her, “What do you want?”
She said to him, “Command that these,my two sons, may sit,one on your right handand one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking.Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink,and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”
23He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup,and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;but to sit on my right handand on my left hand is not mine to give,but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
24When the ten heard it,they were indignant with the two brothers.
25But Jesus summoned them,and said, “You knowthat the rulers of the nations lord it over them,and their great ones exercise authority over them.26It shall not be so among you;but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.27Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,28even as the Son of Man came not to be served,but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”