Lexham English Bible

Mark 10:38-42 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

38. But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

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

40. but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

41. And when they heard this, the ten began to be indignant about James and John.

42. And Jesus called them to himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their people in high positions exercise authority over them.