New English Translation

Mark 10:33-38 New English Translation (NET)

33. “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

34. They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.”

35. Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, 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, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”

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