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Matthew 20:22

Question Persecution and Suffering

"You don't know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?"

— Matthew 20:22

Jesus responding to request for positions of honor

Book

Matthew

Chapter & Verses

Ch. 20, v.22

Matthew 12:11

"If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?"

Matthew 14:31

"You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Matthew 15:3

"And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?"

Same theme (Persecution and Suffering) in other Gospels

Mark 10:38

"You don't know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?"

Mark 10:39

"You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,"

John 6:70

"Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"