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Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They said to Him, We are able. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>He said to them, My cup you shall drink; but to sit on My right and on <i>My</i> left, this is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>And hearing <i>this,</i> the ten became indignant with the two brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>But Jesus called them to Himself and said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and <i>their</i> great men exercise authority over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Sight for the Blind</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David! <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us! <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, What do you want Me to do for you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>They said to Him, Lord, <i>we want</i> our eyes to be opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/20-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/matthew/20.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/matthew/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/matthew/20.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/matthew/20.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/matthew/20.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say to him, We are able.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/matthew/20.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />"None of you know what you are asking for," said Jesus; "can you drink out of the cup from which I am about to drink?" "We can," they replied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/matthew/20.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/matthew/20.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jesus answering said, 'Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, 'We are able.'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/february_2_and_whosoever_will.htm">February 2. "And Whosoever Will be Great among You, Let Him be Your Minister. And Whosoever Will be Chief among You, Let Him be Your Servant" (Matt. xx. 26, 27). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant" (Matt. xx. 26, 27). Slave is the literal meaning of the word, doulos. The first word used for service is diakanos, which means a minister to others in any usual way or work: but the word doulos means a bond slave, and the Lord here plainly teaches us that the highest service is that of a bond slave. He Himself made Himself the servant of all, and he who would come <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/february_2_and_whosoever_will.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/nearest_to_christ.htm">Nearest to Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'To sit on My right hand, and on My left, is not Mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of My Father.'--MATT. xx. 23. You will observe that an unusually long supplement is inserted by our translators in this verse. That supplement is quite unnecessary, and, as is sometimes the case, is even worse than unnecessary. It positively obscures the true meaning of the words before us. As they stand in our Bibles, the impression that they leave upon one's mind is that Christ in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/nearest_to_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_servant-lord_and_his_servants.htm">The Servant-Lord and his Servants</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.'--MATT. xx. 28. It seems at first sight strangely unsympathetic and irrelevant that the ambitious request of James and John and their foolish mother, that they should sit at Christ's right hand and His left in His kingdom, should have been occasioned by, and have followed immediately upon, our Lord's solemn and pathetic announcement of His sufferings. But the connection is not difficult to trace. The disciples believed that, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_servant-lord_and_his_servants.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/what_the_historic_christ_taught.htm">What the Historic Christ Taught About his Death</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The Son of Man came... to give His life a ransom for many.'--Matt. xx. 28. We hear a great deal at present about going back to 'the Christ of the Gospels.' In so far as that phrase and the movement of thought which it describes are a protest against the substitution of doctrines for the Person whom the doctrines represent, I, for one, rejoice in it. But I believe that the antithesis suggested by the phrase, and by some of its advocates avowed, between the Christ of the Gospels and the Christ of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/what_the_historic_christ_taught.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whitefield/selected_sermons_of_george_whitefield/blind_bartimeus.htm">Blind Bartimeus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Mark 10:52 -- "And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way." When the apostle Peter was recommending Jesus of Nazareth, in one of his sermons to the Jews, he gave him a short, but withal a glorious and exalted character, "That we went about doing good." He went about, he sought occasions of doing good; it was his meat and drink to do the works of him that sent him, whilst the day of his public administration <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/whitefield/selected_sermons_of_george_whitefield/blind_bartimeus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Whitefield—</span><span class="citation2">Selected Sermons of George Whitefield</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxxvii_delivered_on_the.htm">Delivered on the Lord's Day, on that which is Written in the Gospel, Matt. xx. 1, "The Kingdom of Heaven is Like unto a Man That</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Ye have heard out of the Holy Gospel a parable well suited to the present season, concerning the labourers in the vineyard. For now is the time of the material [2841] vintage. Now there is also a spiritual vintage, wherein God rejoiceth in the fruit of His vineyard. For we cultivate God, and God cultivateth us. [2842] But we do not so cultivate God as to make Him any better thereby. For our cultivation is the labour of the heart, not of the hands. [2843] He cultivateth us as the husbandman doth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxxvii_delivered_on_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">sermons on selected lessons of the new testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxxviii_on_the_words.htm">On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xx. 30, About the Two Blind Men Sitting by the Way Side, and Crying Out, "Lord, have Mercy On</a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. Ye know, Holy Brethren, full well as we do, that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the Physician of our eternal health; and that to this end He took the weakness of our nature, that our weakness might not last for ever. For He assumed a mortal body, wherein to kill death. And, "though He was crucified through weakness," as the Apostle saith, "yet He liveth by the power of God." [2870] They are the words too of the same Apostle; "He dieth no more, and death shall have no more dominion over Him." <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/sermons_on_selected_lessons_of_the_new_testament/sermon_xxxviii_on_the_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">sermons on selected lessons of the new testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/divine_sovereignty.htm">Divine Sovereignty</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We must assume, before we commence our discourse, one thing certain, namely, that all blessings are gifts and that we have no claim to them by our own merit. This I think every considerate mind will grant. And this being admitted, we shall endeavour to show that he has a right, seeing they are his own to do what he wills with them--to withhold them wholly is he pleaseth--to distribute them all if he chooseth--to give to some and not to others--to give to none or to give to all, just as seemeth good <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/divine_sovereignty.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/the_private_thoughts_and_words.htm">The Private Thoughts and Words of Jesus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again."--Matthew 20:17-19. YOU HAVE THIS SAME STORY in Matthew and Mark and Luke, a little differently told; as would naturally be the case <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/the_private_thoughts_and_words.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/particular_redemption.htm">Particular Redemption</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I begin this morning with the doctrine of Redemption. "He gave his life a ransom for many." The doctrine of Redemption is one of the most important doctrines of the system of faith. A mistake on this point will inevitably lead to a mistake through the entire system of our belief. Now, you are aware that there are different theories of Redemption. All Christians hold that Christ died to redeem, but all Christians do not teach the same redemption. We differ as to the nature of atonement, and as to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/particular_redemption.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/the_history_and_life_of_the_reverend_doctor_john_tauler/ix_sermon_for_septuagesima_sunday.htm">Sermon for Septuagesima Sunday</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(From the Gospel for the day) In this Sermon following we are taught how we must perpetually press forward towards our highest good, without pause or rest; and how we must labour in the spiritual vineyard that it may bring forth good fruit. Matt. xx. 1.--"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard." THIS householder went out early at the first hour, and again at the third and at the sixth hours, and hired <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/winkworth/the_history_and_life_of_the_reverend_doctor_john_tauler/ix_sermon_for_septuagesima_sunday.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Susannah Winkworth—</span><span class="citation2">The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/matthew/20-22.htm">Matthew 20:22 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/20-21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 20:21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 20:21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/20-23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 20:23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 20:23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/matthew/20-22.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>