It's like when Mom asks your boss to give you a promotion. Were James and John embarrassed that their mother asked Jesus for preferential treatment for them? Probably. Did they go along with the idea? Yeah. They did. But before we get to that part of Matthew's narrative, let's finish up what we started talking about yesterday: the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. Here's Pastor Jim, in Matthew 20.

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