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Mark 10:36-38
Contemporary English Version
Mark 10:36-38
Contemporary English Version
36 Jesus asked them what they wanted, 37 and they answered, “When you come into your glory, please let one of us sit at your right side and the other at your left.”[a]
38 (A) Jesus told them, “You don't really know what you're asking! Are you able to drink from the cup[b] that I must soon drink from or be baptized as I must be baptized?”[c]
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- 10.37 right side … left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king.
- 10.38 drink from the cup: In the Scriptures a “cup” is sometimes used as a symbol of suffering. To “drink from the cup” would be to suffer.
- 10.38 as I must be baptized: Baptism is used with the same meaning that “cup” has in this verse.
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