31. But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”
32. They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Yeshua was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
33. “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
34. They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
35. Jacob and Yochanan, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Rabbi, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
36. He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
37. They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
38. But Yeshua said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?”
39. They said to him, “We are able.”Yeshua said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with;
40. but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”
41. When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards Jacob and Yochanan.
42. Yeshua summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognised as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
43. But it shall not be so amongst you, but whoever wants to become great amongst you shall be your servant.
44. Whoever of you wants to become first amongst you, shall be bondservant of all.
45. For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
46. They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.