Mark 10:35-43

35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.”

36“What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.

37They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.”

38Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

39“We are able,” they told him. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

40But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

41When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John.

42Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions act as tyrants over them.

43But it is not so among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant,