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Then James and John, the sons of Zabdi, came up to Him and said, "Rabbi, we wish you would grant us whatever request we make of you."
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"What would you have me do for you?" He asked.
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"Allow us," they replied, "to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left hand, in your glory."
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"You know not," said He, "what you are asking. Are you able to drink out of the cup from which I am to drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am to be baptized?"
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"We are able," they replied. "Out of the cup," said Jesus, "from which I am to drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I am to be baptized you shall be baptized;
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but as to sitting at my right hand or at my left, that is not mine to give: it will be for those for whom it is reserved."
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The other ten, hearing of it, were at first highly indignant with James and John.
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Jesus, however, called them to Him and said to them, "You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority;
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but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant;
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and whoever desires to be first among you must be the bondservant of all.
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For the Son of Man also did not come to be waited upon, but to wait on others, and to give His life as the redemption-price for a multitude of people."