In Matthew chapter 20, we have already kind of dipped our toe into this chapter just a little bit.

And we have seen where Jesus, at least on his journeys, we see him kind of making his way from Jericho.

And now they're getting ready to go up to Jerusalem.

And Jesus is already talking about his death and his resurrection.

And we talked about last week, the first part of Matthew chapter 20, the laborers who came

into the vineyard and they received the payment no matter what time they showed up.

And Jesus talked about the first shall be last,

the last shall be first, you know. And, and then we saw on Sunday where Jesus declared what

was going to happen in Jerusalem. And it's a powerful, you know, topic packed just a few verses,

verses 17 through 19.

If you miss that, you might want to get caught up on that one,

because Jesus spells it out.

What is he going to Jerusalem to do?

And he's going to be crucified.

He's going to be apprehended by the religious leaders

and then turned over to the Gentiles, the Romans,

and mocked and scourged

and crucified. But then, always with Jesus in talking about his death, what would he always

include when he talked about his death? His resurrection, yes. And so we looked at that on Sunday.

Very important. And so this is the message. Now, we pick up there in verse 20,

where we left off on Sunday, Matthew 20, verse 20. It says, then came to him the mother of

Zebedee's children with her sons, worshiping him and desiring a certain thing of him and he said unto her what wilt thou

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