18And they said: “Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.” 19Attend to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries. 20Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.
5You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector. 6Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth. 7You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord. 8I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness. 9And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place. 10Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut. 11For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed. 12I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me. 13I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil. 14For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life. 15But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.” 16My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me.
17And Jesus, ascending to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside in private and said to them: 18“Behold, we are ascending to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be handed over to the leaders of the priests and to the scribes. And they shall condemn him to death. 19And they shall hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified. And on the third day, he shall rise again.” 20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him, with her sons, adoring him, and petitioning something from him. 21And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Declare that these, my two sons, may sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.” 22But Jesus, responding, said: “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the chalice, from which I will drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” 23He said to them: “From my chalice, indeed, you shall drink. But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to give to you, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.” 24And the ten, upon hearing this, became indignant with the two brothers. 25But Jesus called them to himself and said: “You know that the first ones among the Gentiles are their rulers, and that those who are greater exercise power among them. 26It shall not be this way among you. But whoever will want to be greater among you, let him be your minister. 27And whoever will want to be first among you, he shall be your servant, 28even as the Son of man has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a redemption for many.”