So Jesus, alright then…you got it. You see there is only one way into the kingdom and that is death. She asked for it but didn’t truly understand the price. They did drink of that cup.
If you read ACTS 12:1 it records that King Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great who tried to kill Jesus at birth and killed all those babies in Jerusalem – the murder of the innocents they called it.– and the son of Herod Antipas who presided over the deaths of John the Baptist and Jesus –
had James brutally murdered by the sword.
Oh…he drank of that cup. And when he saw that it pleased the Jews he went after Peter. A line of murderers.