Mark 10:36-38
New Catholic Bible
36 He asked them, “What is it that you want me to do for you?” 37 They said to him, “Allow us to sit, one at your right hand and the other at your left, in your glory.” 38 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink,[a] or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
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- Mark 10:38 Drink the cup that I drink: a Hebraism for sharing someone’s fate. In the Old Testament, the “cup of wine” was a metaphor for God’s wrath against sin and rebellion (Ps 75:9; Isa 51:17-23; Jer 25:15-28; 49:12; 51:7).
Thus, the cup Jesus had to drink refers to the punishment of sins that he bore in place of all human beings (see Mk 10:45; 14:36). Baptism: an image of Jesus’ suffering and death.
Mark 10:36-38
King James Version
36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?
37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
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Mark 10:36-38
English Standard Version
36 And he said to them, (A)“What do you want me to do for you?” 37 And they said to him, “Grant us (B)to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, (C)in your glory.” 38 Jesus said to them, (D)“You do not know what you are asking. Are you able (E)to drink the cup that I drink, or (F)to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
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