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Mark 10:33-39 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

33. “Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death and then hand him over to the Gentiles,

34. who will mock him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him; but three days later he will rise to life.”

35. Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus. “Teacher,” they said, “there is something we want you to do for us.”

36. “What is it?” Jesus asked them.

37. They answered, “When you sit on your throne in your glorious Kingdom, we want you to let us sit with you, one at your right and one at your left.”

38. Jesus said to them, “You don't know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup of suffering that I must drink? Can you be baptized in the way I must be baptized?”

39. “We can,” they answered.Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup I must drink and be baptized in the way I must be baptized.

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