Matthew 20:15–22

^15aIs it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or ^bis your eye evil because I am good?’ ^16cSo the last will be first, and the first last. ^dFor ⁴many are called, but few chosen.”

Instruction About Jesus’ Death

Mark 10:32–34; Luke 18:31–34

^17eNow Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, ^18f“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death, ^19gand deliver Him to the Gentiles to ^hmock and to ⁱscourge and to ^jcrucify. And the third day He will ^krise again.”

Instruction About Ambition

Mark 10:35–45

^20lThen the mother of ^mZebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.

²¹And He said to her, “What do you wish?”

She said to Him, “Grant that these two sons of mine ⁿmay sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.”

²²But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink ^othe cup that I am about to drink, ⁵and be baptized with ^pthe baptism that I am baptized with?”

They said to Him, “We are able.”