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Matthew 20:22

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22But Jesus said, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?” n

The sons answered, “Yes, we can.”

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  1. ndrink … drink Jesus used the idea of drinking from a cup to ask if they could accept the same terrible things that would happen to him.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”

“We can,” they answered.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”

“We are able,” they said to him.

NLTNew Living Translation

But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?”

“Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

KJV 1900King James Version

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