The Servant of All

32They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going ahead of them; and they were astonished, while those who were following were afraid. And taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that were about to happen to him.

33that, ‘Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles.’

34And they will mock him, and spit on him, and flog him, and kill him, and after three days he will rise.

35And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”

36And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

37They said to him, “Grant to us that one of us may sit at your right and one at your left in your glory.”

38But 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 with which I am baptized?”

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

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

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

42And Jesus called them to himself and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.”

43But it is not so among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant,

44And whoever wants to be first among you will be the servant of all.

45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.