22 But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup[a] that I am about to drink?”[b](A)

“We are able,” they said to Him.

23 He told them, “You will indeed drink My cup.[c] But to sit at My right and left is not Mine to give; instead, it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:22 Figurative language referring to His coming suffering; Mt 26:39; Jn 18:11
  2. Matthew 20:22 Other mss add and (or) to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
  3. Matthew 20:23 Other mss add and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with.

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