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Matthew 20:22-24
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 20:22-24
New Catholic Bible
22 Jesus said in reply, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup[a] I am going to drink?” They said to him, “We can.”
23 He then said to them, “You shall indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not in my power to grant. Those places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”
24 When the other ten disciples heard this, they were indignant at the two brothers.
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- Matthew 20:22 Drink the cup: in the idiom of the Bible, this meant to meet suffering (see Isa 51:17; Jer 25:15; Ps 75:9).