In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Twentyninth
Sunday of the Year. Listen:
Gospel Mk
10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, "Teacher,
we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." He replied, "What do you wish
me to do for you?" They answered him, "Grant that in your glory we may sit one
at your right and the other at your left." Jesus said to them, "You do not know
what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with
the baptism with which I am baptized?" They said to him, "We can." Jesus said
to them, "The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which
I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not
mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared." When the ten heard
this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them and said to
them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord
it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But
it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will
be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For
the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a
ransom for many."