World English Bible
Mark 10:38
“But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
Verse in context — Mark 10
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He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?
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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.
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But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
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They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
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but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.
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