Matthew 20:20-22

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A Mother Asks a Special Favor^(A)

²⁰ Then Zebedee’s wife came to Jesus and brought her sons. She bowed before Jesus and asked him to do something for her.

²¹ Jesus said, “What do you want?”

She said, “Promise that one of my sons will sit at your right side in your kingdom and the other at your left.”

²² So Jesus said to the sons, “You don’t understand what you are asking. Can you drink from the cup^[a] that I must drink from?”

The sons answered, “Yes, we can!”