Daily Discovery Bible Study

17 On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples aside as they walked along and told them,18 “Look, we're going to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and religious teachers. They will condemn him to death19 and hand him over to the foreigners to mock him, whip him, and crucify him. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came with her two sons to Jesus. She kneeled down before him to make a request.

21 “What is it you are asking me for?” Jesus said to her.

“Please appoint my sons to sit beside you in your kingdom, one on your right and the other on your left,” she asked.

22 “You don't know what you're asking,” Jesus told them. “Are you able to drink the cup I'm about to drink?”

“Yes, we are able to do that,” they told him.

23 “You will certainly drink from my cup,” he said to them, “but the privilege to sit on my right or on my left isn't mine to give. My Father is the one who has decided who that will be.”

Matthew 20: 17-23