{"id":20832,"date":"2026-07-25T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/?p=20832"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T10:46:05","slug":"gospel-matthew-2020-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/gospel-matthew-2020-28\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSPEL  Matthew 20:20-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nThe mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons\r\nand did him homage, wishing to ask him for something.\r\nHe said to her,\r\n\"What do you wish?\"\r\nShe answered him,\r\n\"Command that these two sons of mine sit,\r\none at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.\"\r\nJesus said in reply,\r\n\"You do not know what you are asking.\r\nCan you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?\"\r\nThey said to him, \"We can.\"\r\nHe replied,\r\n\"My chalice you will indeed drink,\r\nbut to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give\r\nbut is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.\"\r\nWhen the ten heard this,\r\nthey became indignant at the two brothers.\r\nBut Jesus summoned them and said,\r\n\"You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them,\r\nand the great ones make their authority over them felt.\r\nBut it shall not be so among you.\r\nRather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant;\r\nwhoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave.\r\nJust so, the Son of Man did not come to be served\r\nbut to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.\"\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something. He said to her, &#8220;What do you wish?&#8221; She answered him, &#8220;Command that these two sons of mine sit, one at your right and the other at your left, in your Kingdom.&#8221; Jesus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/gospel-matthew-2020-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOSPEL  Matthew 20:20-28&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20833,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions\/20833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}