Holman Christian Standard Bible

Mark 10:37-42 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

37. They answered Him, “Allow us to sit at Your right and at Your left in Your glory.”

38. But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? ”

39. “We are able,” they told Him.Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

40. But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to give; instead, it is for those it has been prepared for.”

41. When the other 10 disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John.

42. Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their men of high positions exercise power over them.