20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebʹe·dee+ approached him with her sons, doing obeisance and asking for something from him.+ 21 He said to her: “What do you want?” She replied to him: “Give the word that these two sons of mine may sit down, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your Kingdom.”+ 22 Jesus answered: “You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?”+ They said to him: “We can.” 23 He said to them: “You will indeed drink my cup,+ but to sit 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.”+

49 That is why the wisdom of God also said: ‘I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill and persecute some of them,+