Ye know not; they did not understand the nature of his kingdom, and what they must do and suffer to be first in it.

The cup-the baptism; the cup is that of suffering; Matthew 26:39, etc. The baptism is his bloody death. The two together denote all the sufferings, inward and outward, through which our Lord's path to glory lay.

We are able; in this they knew not what they said.

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