Matthew 20:23
He saith to them: Ye will indeed drink of my cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my Father.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
24And when the ten heard it, they were angry against the two brothers.
Cross References
Mark 10:40But that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine o give, except to those for whom it is prepared.
Romans 8:17And if sons, then heirs; heirs of God, and participators of the inheritance of Jesus Messiah: so that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.
2 Corinthians 1:7And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know, that if ye partake of the sufferings, ye will also partake of the consolation.
2 Timothy 2:11Faithful is the saying, For if we shall have died with him, we shall also live with him;
Revelation 1:9I John, your brother, and partaker with you in the affliction and suffering that are in Jesus the Messiah, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus the Messiah.
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 →