Mark 10:40
Good News Translation
But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. It is God who will give these places to those for whom he has prepared them."

New Revised Standard Version
but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Contemporary English Version
But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. This is for God to decide."

New American Bible
but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.

Matthew 20:23 He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

John 17:2,24 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. . . .

Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Context
The Request of James and John
39But they said to him: We can. And Jesus saith to them: You shall indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of; and with the baptism wherewith I am baptized you shall be baptized. 40But to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared. 41And the ten, hearing it, began to be much displeased at James and John.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:11
Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

Acts 1:7
But he said to them: It is not for you to know the time or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:

Mark 10:39
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