MATTHEW 20:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but 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.”
He said to them: you will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father. The confirmation that James and John will drink the cup (James martyred in Acts 12:2; John exiled to Patmos in Revelation 1:9) paired with the withholding of the status-grant: the positions are the Father's to assign, not the Son's to grant on request. The preparation language communicates the sovereign arrangement of the kingdom's final structure.
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