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Matthew 20:20–21

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A Mother’s Request

20wThen xthe mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and ykneeling before him she asked him for something. 21And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine zare to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, ain your kingdom.”

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Cross references

  1. wFor ver. 20–28, see Mark 10:35–45
  2. xch. 4:21; 27:56
  3. ySee ch. 8:2
  4. z[ch. 19:28]
  5. ach. 16:28; 25:31, 34; Luke 23:42

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.

“What is it you want?” he asked.

She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached him with her sons. She knelt down to ask him for something. “What do you want?” he asked her.

“Promise,” she said to him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. “What is your request?” he asked.

She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked something from him. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.