20 Then Zebedee’s wife approached Yeshua with her two sons, Yacob and Yohan. She knelt in front of him, obviously wanting to ask for something.

21 “What is it that you’re wanting?” Yeshua asked.

“Promise that my two sons will be able to sit beside you in your royal court,” she said, “one on the right and one on the left.”

22 But Yeshua answered, “You people don’t realise what you’re asking. Do you think you’ll be able to bear the suffering that I’ll have to suffer?”

“Yes,” they replied, “we can.”

23 “Well, you will indeed share my suffering,” Yeshua responded. “But on the other hand, sitting on my right and my left is not my decision to make—it’s for the people my father’s prepared those places for.”

24 Now the other ten, who’d heard all this, resented the two brothers, 25 but Yeshua called them over and said, “You apprentices know that the rulers of other nations practice total control over their people, as do other powerful people.[ref] 26 But among you, it shouldn’t be like that. Instead, anyone who wants to become important should be your servant,[ref] 27 and anyone who wants to be first should be your slave, 28 in the same way that humanity’s child didn’t come to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as the cost of freeing many people.”