MATTHEW 20:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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 unto him, We are able.”
Jesus answered: you do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink? They said to him: we are able. The cup that Jesus is about to drink is the cup of suffering — the cup that Gethsemane will reveal in its full intensity (Matthew 26:39). The we are able communicates the disciples' confident but uninformed willingness: they do not yet understand what the cup contains.
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