CHAPTER LI.
ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN—HEALS TWO BLIND MEN NEAR JERICHO.
AND they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve disciples apart in the way, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, saying,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. And the Son
[251]of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, James and John, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said unto them,
What would ye that I should do for you?
They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. And Jesus answered and said,