Matthew 20
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Matthew 20:17-22

17Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them,

18“We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death

19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!”

20Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.

21“What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”

22“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered.

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