of my cup] Ye shall endure afflictions like mine. So they did both: for James was slain, Acts 12. 1, &c. and John was banished, and suffered many sad things.
but it shall be given to them for whom] Or, save to whom: so the word is used, Mark 9:8. Christs power of disposing of it is not denied; but he sheweth onely to whom it is to be given.