NARRATOR: James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus.
JAMES AND JOHN: Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.
JESUS: What is it you want me to do for you?
JAMES AND JOHN: Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.
JESUS: You don’t know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I drink? Can you be baptized with the baptism I will be baptized with?
JAMES AND JOHN: We can.
JESUS: You will indeed drink the cup I will drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I will be baptized. But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. God will give these places to those for whom God has prepared them.
NARRATOR: When the other ten disciples heard this, they became angry with James and John. So Jesus called them all together.
JESUS: You know that those who have authority among the Gentiles lord it over their people; their great ones make their importance felt. It cannot be this way among you. Whoever among you wants to be great must serve the rest. Whoever among you wants to be first must serve the needs of all. The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve—to give his life to redeem all people.
Mark 10.35-45