³⁸And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?

³⁹But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism wherewith I am baptized you shall be baptized.

⁴⁰But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.

⁴¹And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased at James and John.

⁴²But Jesus calling them, saith to them: You know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them: and their princes have power over them.

⁴³But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall be your minister.

⁴⁴And whosoever will be first among you shall be the servant of all.

⁴⁵For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto: but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

⁴⁶And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.

⁴⁷Who when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry out and to say: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

⁴⁸And many rebuked him, that he might hold his peace; but he cried a great deal the more: Son of David, have mercy on me.

⁴⁹And Jesus, standing still, commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of better comfort. Arise, he calleth thee.

⁵⁰Who casting off his garment leaped up and came to him.

⁵¹And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni. That I may see.

⁵²And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he saw and followed him in the way.

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