Радио ВЕРА - Евангелие от Матфея, Глава 20, стихи 17-28. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 20, Poems 17-28.

17 And, rising to Jerusalem, Jesus withdrew the twelve disciples alone by the road, and said to them:

18 Here, we go to Jerusalem, and the son of the human will be devoted to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;

19 and will betray it to the Gentiles for reproach and beating and crucifixion; And on the third day he will rise.

20 Then the mother of the Sons of Zevedeeevs with her sons began to him, bowing and asking for something from him.

21 He told her: what do you want? She tells him: tell me that these two sons would sit with you alone on the right side, and the other on the left in your kingdom.

22 Jesus said in response: you do not know what to ask. Can you drink the bowl that I will drink, or baptized by the baptism that I am baptized? They tell him: we can.

23 And he says to them: you will drink my cup, and you will be baptized by the baptism that I am baptized, but let me sit down on the right side and on the left does not depend on me, but to whom my father is destined.

24 Hearing this, the other ten students were indulged in two brothers.

25 Jesus, calling them, said: you know that the princes of the peoples dominate them, and the nobles rule them;

26 But there will not be this between you: and whoever wants to be more than you, may you be a servant;

27 and who wants to be the first between you, may you be a slave;

28 Since the human son did not come to serve him, but in order to serve and give his soul to atone many.

Comments Hieromonk Feoktist Igumn.

When we hear the words of the current Gospel passage, it becomes obvious to us that the unrighteous of the Brothers Jacob and John, obviously their ambition, we are indignant at them along with ten other apostles. We understand that this is impossible. In any case, one cannot show your ambition with such openness and directness. But every medal has two sides, each human act and human desire can be found and see an unobvious background. The episode we heard not only shows the unseemly sides of the personality of the Zevedeeev brothers and their mother, but at the same time indicates this in their favor. On the one hand, they showed ambition, on the other hand, an unshakable faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. By the time of appeal with a request to sit on the right and left side of the Divine Teacher, Christ himself repeatedly warned His disciples that scolding and terrible death were waiting for him. But despite this, the Apostles Jacob and John thought about the kingdom of Christ. Despite the thickening twilight, they believed that ultimately the victory would be for Christ. And even when they directly said that it would be necessary to drink the bowl of suffering, they did not turn back, did not abandon their words and their desire. And this is what the Zevedeeev brothers should learn: no matter what to maintain faith in the ultimate victory of Christ the Savior over all possible horror of life, no matter what to be prepared for any trials for the sake of complicity in this victory, to believe when his own mind is rebelled Against faith, when there is no reason for faith. If we have such a faith in Christ, then he will euthanize those unevenness and roughness of our character by his strength, just as the ambition of the Holy Apostles Jacob and John fought and destroyed.