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 is it?
JOHN: When you sit on your throne in your glorious kingdom, we want you to let us sit with you, one at your right and one at your left.
JESUS: You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
JAMES AND JOHN: We can.
JESUS: The cup I will drink you will drink. The baptism with which I am baptized you will be baptized. But to sit at my right hand or my left is not for me to give; it is for those for whom it has been prepared.
NARRATOR: When the other ten disciples heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. Sensing this, Jesus called them together.
JESUS: You know that those who have authority among the Gentiles lord it over their people. Their great ones are tyrants over them. It cannot be this way among you. Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be the slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10.35-45