37. and they answered, “When you come into your glory, please let one of us sit at your right side and the other at your left.”
38. Jesus told them, “You don't really know what you're asking! Are you able to drink from the cup that I must soon drink from or be baptized as I must be baptized?”
39. “Yes, we are!” James and John answered.Then Jesus replied, “You certainly will drink from the cup from which I must drink. And you will be baptized just as I must!
40. But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for God to decide.”
41. When the ten other disciples heard this, they were angry with James and John.
42. But Jesus called the disciples together and said:You know that those foreigners who call themselves kings like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over the people they rule.
43. But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others.
44. And if you want to be first, you must be everyone's slave.
45. The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.
46. Jesus and his disciples went to Jericho. And as they were leaving, they were followed by a large crowd. A blind beggar called Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting beside the road.
47. When he heard that it was Jesus from Nazareth, he shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!”