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Matthew 20:18-20
The Message
Matthew 20:18-20
The Message
To Drink from the Cup
17-19 Jesus, now well on the way up to Jerusalem, took the Twelve off to the side of the road and said, “Listen to me carefully. We are on our way up to Jerusalem. When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious leaders and scholars. They will sentence him to death. They will then hand him over to the Romans for mockery and torture and crucifixion. On the third day he will be raised up alive.”
20 It was about that time that the mother of the Zebedee brothers came with her two sons and knelt before Jesus with a request.
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Matthew 20:18-20
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Matthew 20:18-20
New International Version
18 “We are going up to Jerusalem,(A) and the Son of Man(B) will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law.(C) They will condemn him to death 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged(D) and crucified.(E) On the third day(F) he will be raised to life!”(G)
A Mother’s Request(H)
20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons(I) came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down,(J) asked a favor of him.
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