15. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”
16. Jesus then said, “So it is. Everyone who is now first will be last, and everyone who is last will be first.”
17. As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took his twelve disciples aside and told them in private:
18. We are now on our way to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses. They will sentence him to death,
19. and then they will hand him over to foreigners who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.
20. The mother of James and John came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her.
21. Jesus asked her what she wanted, and she said, “When you come into your kingdom, please let one of my sons sit at your right side and the other at your left.”