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Matthew 20:22

American Standard Version

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.

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Matthew 20:22 in other translations

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”

Matthew 20:22 · World English Bible

Matthew 20:22 in context

  1. 20Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping him, and asking a certain thing of him.
  2. 21And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom.
  3. 22But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.
  4. 23He saith unto them, My cup indeed ye shall drink: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left hand, is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared of my Father.
  5. 24And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren.