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and he said to them, `What do ye wish me to do for you?'
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and they said to him, `Grant to us that, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, we may sit in thy glory;'
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and Jesus said to them, `Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with -- to be baptized?'
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And they said to him, `We are able;' and Jesus said to them, `Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;
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but to sit on my right and on my left, is not mine to give, but -- to those for whom it hath been prepared.'
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And the ten having heard, began to be much displeased at James and John,
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but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them;
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but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,
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and whoever of you may will to become first, he shall be servant of all;
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for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
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And they come to Jericho, and as he is going forth from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, a son of Timaeus -- Bartimaeus the blind -- was sitting beside the way begging,