Mark 10:37-41 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

³⁷They answered, “Grant that one of us may sit at Your right hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

³⁸“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

³⁹“We can,” the brothers answered. “You will drink the cup that I drink,” Jesus said, “and you will be baptized with the baptism that I undergo.

⁴⁰But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

⁴¹When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John.

— Mark 10:37-41

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