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Mark 10:39-44 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

39. They said to him, “We can.” Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;

40. but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

41. When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.

42. Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt.

43. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;

44. whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.

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