Matthew 20:23
He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24And the ten hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
Cross References
Mark 10:40But to sit on my right hand, or on my left, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.
Romans 8:17And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.
2 Corinthians 1:7That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.
2 Timothy 2:11A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him.
Revelation 1:9I John, your brother and your partner in tribulation, and in the kingdom, and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island, which is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of 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 →