NOTES for Mat 20:22

Jesus head off to Jerusalem, where His Kingdom has to come true in its plenitude; and his(her) followers are ready, on the right of the " drawn near " to share with Him His glory, to sit down to take meal with Him, having beforehand achieved the ablution together and drunk from His royal cup. But Jesus stops them: the followers don’t realize how deeply He will need to immerse and of which cup to drink. These lines of the Gospel were not only written to describe the lack of perspicacity and the ambitions of the apostles, but also they were addressed (and today still) to the new disciples of Jesus, whom quite as the apostles are ready to share with Him the promised triumph, but do not want to remember that the Kingdom of God have to be accomplished within the service and in self-sacrifice. The Son of God came into this world to serve. For what did we come here on earth)?