Matthew 20:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Cross References

Matthew 13:11

He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Matthew 20:24

When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers.

Matthew 25:34

Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,

Mark 10:40

but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to appoint, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Acts 12:2

He had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword.

Romans 8:17

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

2 Corinthians 1:7

Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Hebrews 11:16

But as it is, they desire a better homeland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; indeed, he has prepared a city for them.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother who share with you the persecution and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.