| Narrator | James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus. |
| James | Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask. |
| Jesus | What do you want me to do for you? |
| John | Let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom. |
| Jesus | You don't know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptised with the baptism I am baptised with? |
| James and John | Yes, we can. |
| Jesus | You will drink the cup I drink, and be baptised with the baptism I am baptised with, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places are for those for whom they have been prepared. |
| Narrator | When the other ten heard about this, they were angry with James and John. Jesus called them together. |
| Jesus | The Gentiles have ruler. They like to
show their power over people. Their important leaders
like to show their authority. You shouldn't be like that.
If one of you wants to become great, then he must serve
you like a servant. If one of you wants to become the
most important, then he must serve all of you like a
slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. |
Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."