Mark 10:35-45 - A Request By James And John

³⁵ And Zebedee's two sons, James and John, came up to him and said, "Master, we want you to do for us whatever we ask."

³⁶ He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

³⁷ They said to him, "Let us sit one at your right hand and one at your left, in your triumph."

³⁸ Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink what I am drinking, or undergo the baptism that I am undergoing?"

³⁹ They said to him, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "Then you shall drink what I am drinking, and you shall undergo the baptism that I am undergoing; ⁴⁰ but as for sitting at my right or at my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined." ⁴¹ When the other ten heard of this they were at first very indignant at James and John.

⁴² And Jesus called them to him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them; ⁴³ but it is not to be so among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be everybody's slave. ⁴⁵ For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."