Matthew 20:22

And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, You do not have daas of what you are asking. Are you able to drink the Kos which I am about to drink? They say, We are able.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, What do you wish? She says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Say that these, my two banim, may sit, one on your right, the other on your left, in your + 20:21 the Moshiachʼs Malchut.

23Moshiach says to them, Indeed, you will drink my Kos, but to sit on the right and on the left of me, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my + 20:23 Moshiachʼs Av.

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Cross References

Psalms 75:3I shall seize the mo'ed (appointed time), + 75:3 Hab 2:3 1 I will judge uprightly. 1

Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake, rise up, O Yerushalayim, 1 which hast drunk at the Yad Hashem 1 the kos of His fury; thou hast drunk to the dregs 1 and drained dry the Kos HaTarelah (Cup of Reeling). 1

Jeremiah 25:15For thus saith Hashem Elohei Yisroel unto me: Take this kos hayayin haChemah (wine cup of wrath) + 25:15 See Lk 22:42 from My yad, and cause kol HaGoyim, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

Matthew 26:35Kefa says to him, Even if it is necessary for me to die al kiddush ha-Shem with you, by no means will I deny you. Likewise all the talmidim spoke also.

Matthew 26:42Again, for a second time, having left, he davened, saying, Avi, if it is not possible for this to pass by except I drink it, let yeaseh rtzonechah (your will be done). + 26:42 Mt 6:10

Mark 10:38But he said to them, You do not have daas of what you ask. Are you able to drink the kos which I drink or to undergo my mikveh? + 10:38 Job 38:2

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 →

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