²³ He said to them: “YOU will indeed drink my cup,+ but this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”+

² He did away with James the brother of John+ by the sword.+

⁹ I John, YOUR brother and a sharer with YOU in the tribulation+ and kingdom+ and endurance+ in company with Jesus,+ came to be in the isle that is called Pat′mos for speaking about God and bearing witness* to Jesus.*+