Matthew 20:23
“You will certainly drink from my cup,” he said to them, “but the privilege to sit on my right or on my left isn't mine to give. My Father is the one who has decided who that will be.”
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In Context
24When the other ten disciples heard what they had asked, they were annoyed with the two brothers.
Cross References
Mark 10:40“But it's not for me to grant who should sit on my right or on my left. These places are reserved for those for whom they have been prepared.”
Romans 8:17If we're his children, then we're his heirs. We are heirs of God, and heirs together with Christ. But if we want to share in his glory we must share in his sufferings.
2 Corinthians 1:7We have great confidence in you, knowing that as you share in our sufferings you also share in our comfort.
2 Timothy 2:11This is a trustworthy saying: “If we died with him, we will also live with him;
Revelation 1:9I am John, your brother who shares with you in the suffering and in the kingdom and in the patient waiting that are our experience in Jesus. I was detained on the island of Patmos for sharing the word of God and the truth as revealed by 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 →