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Mark 10:36-38
New Catholic Bible
Mark 10:36-38
New Catholic Bible
36 He asked them, “What is it that you want me to do for you?” 37 They said to him, “Allow us to sit, one at your right hand and the other at your left, in your glory.” 38 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink,[a] or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
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- Mark 10:38 Drink the cup that I drink: a Hebraism for sharing someone’s fate. In the Old Testament, the “cup of wine” was a metaphor for God’s wrath against sin and rebellion (Ps 75:9; Isa 51:17-23; Jer 25:15-28; 49:12; 51:7).
Thus, the cup Jesus had to drink refers to the punishment of sins that he bore in place of all human beings (see Mk 10:45; 14:36). Baptism: an image of Jesus’ suffering and death.
Mark 10:36-38
New International Version
Mark 10:36-38
New International Version
36 “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.
37 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”(A)
38 “You don’t know what you are asking,”(B) Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup(C) I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”(D)
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