Matthew 20:23
He said to them: “From my chalice, indeed, you shall drink. But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to give to you, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24And the ten, upon hearing this, became indignant with the two brothers.
Cross References
Mark 10:40But to sit at my right, or at my left, is not mine to give to you, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
Romans 8:17But if we are sons, then we are also heirs: certainly heirs of God, but also co-heirs with Christ, yet in such a way that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.
2 Corinthians 1:7So may our hope for you be made firm, knowing that, just as you are participants in the suffering, so also shall you be participants in the consolation.
2 Timothy 2:11It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him.
Revelation 1:9I, John, your brother, and a sharer in the tribulation and in the kingdom and in patient endurance for Christ Jesus, was on the island which is called Patmos, because of the Word of God and the testimony to Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:21-29
Ambition Corrected. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23… Read the whole commentary →