Precedence
They head toward Jerusalem.
Again he tells his apostles, We are going up to Jerusalem.
Adam’s son will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes.
They will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him, scourge him and put him to death.
On the third day he will rise.
Thibodice’s wife, the mother of James and John, asks to see him.
Tell me what you want.
Let my two sons sit next to you in your kingdom, one at your right hand, the other at your left.
You don’t know what you’re asking.
Are you willing to drink the cup I shall drink and be baptized with the baptism I shall be baptized with?
We are.
You will drink my cup and be baptized with my baptism, but to be at my right and my left is not mine to give.
It is for them my father has prepared it for.
The other apostles hear what is being said and are angry with the two brothers.
Jesus calls the twelve together.
With the Gentiles the bosses give the orders and get the honors.
It mustn’t be so with you.