Matthew 20:16–27

¹⁶Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

¹⁷And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with him apart in the way, and said to them, ¹⁸Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; ¹⁹and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

²⁰Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him. ²¹And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak the word that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom. ²²And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We are able. ²³And he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father. ²⁴And the ten, having heard of it, were indignant about the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus having called them to him, said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them. ²⁶It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your servant; ²⁷and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;