Matthew 20:13-23

13 But he replied to one of them, ¹'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

14 Take ²what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you.

15 ³Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or ⁴do you begrudge my generosity?'^[a]

16 So ⁵the last will be first, and the first last."

Jesus Foretells His Death a Third Time

17 ⁶And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

18 "See, ⁷we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will ⁸condemn him to death

19 and ⁹deliver him over to the Gentiles ¹⁰to be mocked and flogged and ¹¹crucified, and he will be raised on ¹²the third day."

A Mother's Request

20 ¹³Then ¹⁴the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and ¹⁵kneeling before him she asked him for something.

21 And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine ¹⁶are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, ¹⁷in your kingdom."

22 Jesus answered, ¹⁸"You do not know what you are asking. Are you able ¹⁹to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

23 He said to them, ²⁰"You will drink ²¹my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, ²²but it is for those for whom it has been ²³prepared by my Father."