Cradle cap scabs
Cradle Cap (Seborrheic Dermatitis) in Infants (for Parents)
en español: Costra láctea (dermatitis seborreica) en los bebés
Reviewed by: Yamini Durani, MD
Dermatology (Skin Care) at Nemours Children's Health
What Is Cradle Cap?
Cradle cap is the common term for seborrheic dermatitis (seb-eh-REE-ik dur-muh-TYE-tis) of the scalp in infants.
Seborrheic dermatitis, also called seborrhea (seb-eh-REE-uh), can show up:
- on the scalp
- on the forehead and face
- behind the ears
- in the diaper area, armpits, and other skin folds and creases
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Cradle Cap (Seborrheic Dermatitis)?
Babies can develop seborrheic dermatitis when they're between 2 weeks and 12 months old. It usually starts with cradle cap. A baby with cradle cap will have slightly red scaly or crusty yellow patches on the scalp. It may also start on the face or diaper area and spread to other parts of the body.
Seborrhea looks:
- red and moist in skin creases and folds (like the neck and behind the ears)
- yellowish with greasy patches or crusts
- scaly or flaky
Seborrheic dermatitis might look uncomfortable or irritating to the skin. But it usually isn't itchy and doesn't seem to bother infants.
What Causes Cradle Cap (Seborrheic Dermatitis)?
The exact cause of cradle cap isn't known. It's likely due to a combination of things. Too much skin oil (sebum) in the oil glands and hair follicles and a type of yeast found on the skin called Malassezia may play roles in the development of seborrheic dermatitis.
How Is Cradle Cap (Seborrheic Dermatitis) Diagnosed?
Health care professionals can diagnose cradle cap and seborrheic dermatitis by the way the skin looks and where the rash is. Babies with seborrheic dermatitis are usually well and the condition should get better on its own or with treatment.
How Is Cradle Cap (Seborrheic Dermatitis) Treated?
Cradle cap and seborrheic dermatitis in infants usually clears up on its own in weeks or months. In the meantime, you may want to loosen and remove the scales on your baby's scalp:
- Wash your baby's hair once a day with mild, tear-free baby shampoo.
- Gently remove scales with a soft brush or toothbrush.
- If the scales don't loosen easily, apply a small amount of mineral oil or petroleum jelly to your baby's scalp. Let the oil to soak into the scales for a few minutes to several hours, if needed. Then use a soft brush or toothbrush to remove scales. Shampoo your baby's hair as usual.
If regular shampooing doesn't help, your doctor may recommend a mild steroid cream or antifungal shampoo.
For seborrhea on other parts of the body, your doctor may recommend a mild steroid or antifungal cream.
Do not use over-the-counter steroid or antifungal creams or anti-seborrhea shampoos without checking first with the doctor.
What Else Should I Know?
Sometimes seborrheic dermatitis in the diaper area or skin folds can get infected. Talk to your doctor if the rash gets worse or there are any signs of infection (the skin looks red, starts to drain fluid, or feels warm).
Cradle cap and seborrheic dermatitis in infants usually get better by 12 months of age. Seborrhea may come back around puberty as dandruff.
Reviewed by: Yamini Durani, MD
Date reviewed: March 2023
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Cradle Cap Condition, Treatments and Pictures for Infants
Seborrheic dermatitis often affects the scalp in infants, with a thick, crust-like scale.
This is a typical, mild case of cradle cap. There is scaling without any redness of the affected skin.
Images of Cradle Cap (2)
Cradle cap is the common name for seborrheic dermatitis affecting the scalp of newborns. It is a very common skin disorder affecting the oil-rich parts of the skin, including the face, ears, and scalp, and it is often seen in babies up to 3 months of age. The skin becomes flaky and inflamed, and a yellowish scale can accumulate. If the scale is picked off, the skin underneath will look pink or red. Cradle cap itself is not serious, but the affected areas can become infected if not treated properly. The cause of cradle cap is related to overgrowth of normal skin yeast including Pityrosporum and Candida.
Who's At Risk?
Any baby can develop cradle cap. It is not a contagious condition, nor does it occur because of poor hygiene.
Signs & Symptoms
Cradle cap begins as a flaky scalp; it may then progressively worsen to a yellow scale layered on pink or red skin.
The hair may become matted down in the scale. Babies may be itchy and may scratch at their heads or, more commonly, rub their heads or faces on surfaces. If the cradle cap becomes infected, it will ooze, scab, become increasingly red, or the baby might develop a fever.
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Self-Care Guidelines
Cradle cap is easily treated; start by trying to gently remove some of the scale and flakiness by giving the baby a warm bath with gentle baby shampoo. If this is not sufficient, try loosening the scale before bath time by applying a bland oil, such as mineral oil, massaging it in and carefully combing and shampooing it out at bath time. Finally, you may try a shampoo designed for dandruff in adults, such as one with salicylic acid or selenium sulfide, although you should discuss this with your baby’s doctor before attempting it if the baby is younger than 3 months.
Additionally, if you do try adult dandruff shampoo on the baby, be very careful to not get any shampoo in his/her eyes.
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Treatments
The baby’s doctor may recommend a stronger antifungal shampoo or an antifungal cream. If the area is infected, he/she will prescribe antibiotics. If the area is very inflamed, the doctor may prescribe a steroid cream.
Visit Urgency
You should see your child’s doctor if the cradle cap does not improve with the self-care measures described above. Be sure to call the doctor if the cradle cap looks red, oozes, has excessive crusting, or if the baby has fever coupled with the previously described symptoms.
Trusted Links
- MedlinePlus: Infant and Newborn Care
- Clinical Information and Differential Diagnosis of Cradle Cap
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References
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Freedberg, Irwin M, et al, ed. Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine, 6th Ed., pp 1198-1199. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2003.
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A brief history of vaccination from the Middle Ages to the present day
History
Tamara Eidelman
The whole world is waiting for a vaccine against the coronavirus. Anti-vaxxers have gone silent, journalists are spreading sensationalism, virologists have locked themselves in laboratories. For almost a thousand years, humanity has been fighting epidemics by vaccination, and today much reminds of the legendary times of Mary Montagu, Louis Pasteur and Vladimir Khavkin, a little-known doctor in Russia who became a legend and an official knight of the British Empire, having cured millions of people from plague and cholera.
Historian Tamara Eidelman recalls key moments in the world history of fighting epidemics.
The first vaccines: from ancient China to enlightened Paris
Epidemics have always evoked horror - both in antiquity and today. They seemed to be a terrible punishment sent to people by the gods, or the only god, for sins, sacrilege, crimes. Someone rushed to pray incessantly or scourged himself, someone was looking for apostates, because of whom, of course, it all started. Jewish pogroms in the 14th century during the Black Death or arguments that AIDS was sent by God to punish gays are, in fact, phenomena of the same order. “Let old and young cry from early morning for the mercy of God and pray for sins and crimes, glorifying our Lord” - when was this said, in the 16th century or today? “Meditative minds have noticed that Paris, the city of the Revolution, the cradle of political storms, the center of so many vices, the theater of so many assassinations, has become a lamentable exception in all of France,” wrote a 19th-century newspaper during cholera, or is it today’s reasoning that Covid -19- Punishment to the Western world for materialism and godlessness? And the attacks on doctors during the cholera riots of the 19th century or today's "covid deniers" are also manifestations of the same trend - a deep disbelief in science and medicine that has literally soaked into the souls of many people.
Meanwhile, doctors at all times have shown amazing courage and tried to save the sick - albeit to the best of their ability, albeit, perhaps, not yet knowing how to do it, but still the Hippocratic Oath was observed by many. The two categories of people who probably lost the most during the Black Death were doctors and priests. And this is understandable, because it was they who every day came into close contact with the sick and dying. In the XIV century, no one imagined how to treat the plague - the terrible picture of the "Plague Doctor" is another confirmation of this. The terrible mask covering the doctor's face was created because the carriers of the disease were considered bad "fluids", so it was very important to suppress poisonous odors, to isolate themselves from them. The plague doctor's huge nose was stuffed with fragrant herbs that were supposed to protect him.
The two categories of people who died the most during the Black Death were doctors and priests.It is believed that when he himself fell ill, he hid from people (self-isolation?), opened the plague buboes himself and burned them. And survived! And then so treated other people. And the Pope, in gratitude for the advice - to communicate with people, only hiding behind a burning flame - allowed Chauliac to open the bodies of the dead - so he turned out to be one of the first doctors involved in anatomy. But how I wanted to come up with a remedy at all times - not to treat, but to prevent diseases. What was not done for this. There is an assumption that in the X century in China they were already vaccinated against smallpox. However, as one historian has written, “The reports of smallpox inoculation in China in the 10th century are interesting to read, but difficult to verify.” But in the 15th century in China, they already thought of rubbing smallpox scabs and inhaling the powder thus obtained, albeit not very appetizing, but still helping. Later, they came up with the idea of soaking cotton wool in the pus of the patient and putting it in the nose of a healthy child, or putting underwear of a sick child on a healthy child.
Also disgusting, but effective! And if you remember how many millions of people died or remained disfigured by smallpox, it is clear that it was possible to endure.
New time: “wild” oriental methods are penetrating the West
In the 18th century, these oriental methods, which for a long time seemed completely wild to European doctors, nevertheless began to gradually penetrate to the West. Lady Mary Montagu, the wife of the British ambassador in Istanbul, was herself disfigured by smallpox, and her 20-year-old brother died of the disease. Once in the Ottoman Empire, she, to her amazement, saw that "smallpox, which is so destructive with us, is completely safe here." In Turkey, by this time, girls had long been vaccinated in the Sultan's harem so that the disease would not disfigure them, and from the harem, vaccinations spread to simpler people.
Lady Mary Montagu with her son Edward and the memorial of Mary Wortley Montagu in Lichfield
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Charles Maitland, at the request of Lady Mary, grafted her son in Istanbul, and then, after returning to England, her daughter. Other doctors were outraged by such "barbaric" actions, but the royal family became interested - three daughters of George II were ill with smallpox - a disease that did not know class partitions. One of his daughters was left disfigured for life. All this made me want to try to get grafted. Maitland was "allocated" to six criminals sentenced to death, who were promised freedom for participating in the experiment. When it turned out that all six were alive and well, the royal children also received vaccinations. I want to thank Evgeny Roizman, who recently drew my attention to the fact that in Russia, in the same situation, Catherine II behaved more noble and courageous. She did not experiment on either criminals or serfs, but immediately ordered to transplant to her the “pox material”, taken from the scabs of the six-year-old son of the sergeant-major Alexander Markov (later, in gratitude, he received the nobility and became Markov-Ospenny).
When, a week later, the Empress came to her senses from the indisposition caused by the vaccination, she ordered the heir to be vaccinated - and, of course, many aristocrats followed her example.
Catherine II did not experiment on either criminals or serfs, but immediately ordered that “smallpox material” be transplanted into her. "for real", gradually spread more and more. Voltaire wrote enthusiastically about the English: “Usually in Europe they say that the British are a crazy and exalted people; crazy, because they inoculate their children with smallpox to prevent them from getting it; exalted, because they gladly communicate this terrible disease to their children in order to prevent an evil yet unknown. The English, on the other hand, say: other Europeans are cowards and degenerate people: cowards because they are afraid to cause minor pain to children; degenerate people because they put their children in danger of dying from smallpox. But in fact, the idea took root outside the foggy Albion.Back in the 17th century, it was said that in Copenhagen you could buy a remedy for smallpox in the bazaar from enterprising housewives. Apparently they were scraping off the scabs of the sick, which was in abundance. In 1721, when a smallpox epidemic broke out across the ocean in Boston (although the inhabitants of the colonies had long considered themselves protected from this disease of the Old World), the preacher Cotton Mather, who heard about vaccinations from his slave (!), began to urge everyone to be vaccinated. His advice was followed only by one doctor, who instilled his son - and, apparently, to test, two more slaves. The rest of the doctors were outraged. And not only with them - the "anti-vaccinators" of the 18th century threw a grenade at Mather's house. But when the war for independence began, and it turned out that the British army got sick less than the American one, Washington instilled its soldiers.
Inoculation of Americans (1871). Image: Mary Evans Picture Library
Meanwhile, in 1774, in the same England, the farmer Benjamin Jesty was one of the first to think that it was possible to inoculate using cowpox scabs.
Fearing public opinion, he took his wife and children two miles from home - and there he vaccinated them. My wife's hand became inflamed at the injection site - and everyone laughed at Jesty. As a result, he did nothing more. But over twenty years later, Edward Jenner vaccinated little Jimmy Phipps, his gardener's son, and he took pus not from the blisters of smallpox cows, but scraped particles from the arm of a smallpox milkmaid, Sarah Nelmes, who contracted smallpox from a cow named Flower - Blossom. It turned out that this option also works. Nothing happened to Jimmy, after a while they tried to infect him with smallpox, but he remained healthy. Jenner conducted an experiment on 23 people, including his 11-month-old son Robert, and James Phipps, as an adult, received from the doctor the right to live free of charge with his wife and two children in Jenner's cottage - at that time it was just a royal gift . Phipps lived until 1853, never had smallpox, and was buried in the same church in Berkeley where Jenner rests.
And Jenner in 1802 received a huge reward from the British Parliament for his research and propaganda - 10 thousand pounds, and in 1807 - another 20 thousand. Here, however, conversations began that at least part of the award was due to Jesty - he was called to London, he arrived (although he refused, despite the persuasion of his wife, to change from "country" clothes to "city clothes"), told about how what you once did. With him came his grown-up son, who agreed to be injected with human smallpox material, which showed that after many years the immunity from the vaccination received in childhood is still valid. Jesty did not get the award, but when he died, his wife, outraged by such injustice, ordered the words about his achievements to be engraved on the gravestone. Later, although England was at war with France, Napoleon, who ordered smallpox to be vaccinated for the entire army, sent Jenner a medal and even, at his request, released two English prisoners. “I could not refuse anything to one of the greatest benefactors of mankind,” he explained.
After the popularization of the discovery of Jennings (or is it Jesty?), the method of easy, non-dangerous, or not very dangerous infection was practiced by many doctors and scientists.
Modern times: Louis Pasteur and Vladimir Khavkin
The next breakthrough was made by Louis Pasteur, who tried to find a safer way than Jennings - not to transplant infectious material simply from one person to another, but to try to do it "indirectly" . He slaughtered many chickens in an attempt to find a cure for fowl cholera, and eventually managed to create a processed biological culture that proved to be effective. Thus began the development of a variety of vaccines, a few years later Pasteur already had a vaccine even against rabies, the effectiveness of which he was able to demonstrate by inoculating a nine-year-old boy bitten by a rabid dog, and therefore doomed to death ... The child and his parents had nothing to lose, so they agreed to be vaccinated and the child was saved.
Thus began the victorious procession of vaccinations around the world. Perhaps the plague resisted the longest, the same Black Death, which until the end of the 19th century no one understood how to treat. But even here a breakthrough came: Vladimir Khavkin was born in Russia, studied with the great Mechnikov. But it was hard for a Jew and a person of revolutionary views to live and engage in science in the Russian Empire. When Mechnikov moved to Switzerland, Khavkin followed him, and then began working at the Pasteur Institute. At 189In the year 2, he created the first effective vaccine against cholera - surprisingly, few people in our country know that it was this vaccine that saved thousands and thousands of lives in India, and in its modernized form it still saves. After that, Khavkin created a vaccine from heat-treated plague rods - and, as scientists often did (and still do), he began by instilling it on himself. The Khavkin vaccine was vaccinated in the first few decades to several tens of millions of people.
It is hard to say how many lives have been saved over the past century or so.
1897 Vladimir Khavkin is vaccinated in Mumbai. The main image of the article: Vladimir Khavkin in his laboratory in Bombay
Khavkin's laboratory, which began in the hallway of the medical college in Bombay, turned into the Khavkin Institute, which still functions in Mumbai - and is now located in the former governor's mansion is very symbolic naming Sans Pareil - Incomparable. Perhaps it really was an incomparable effort. Even during Khavkin's lifetime, Chekhov wrote to Suvorin: “The plague is not very terrible <...> we already have vaccinations that turned out to be valid and which, by the way, we owe to the Russian doctor Khavkin, a Jew. In Russia, this is the most unknown person, in England he has long been called a great philanthropist.
Anton Chekhov: “In Russia Khavkin is the most unknown person, but in England he has long been called a great philanthropist”empire, more than a century has passed.
During this time, with the help of vaccinations, a huge number of diseases were defeated, the last case of smallpox was recorded in Somalia in 1977, the plague vaccinations were greatly modified, and now, if the disease is detected in time, it can be cured. There are vaccinations against malaria and measles, against meningitis and against diphtheria ... But the number of people who do not want to be vaccinated has grown so much that WHO has included the refusal of vaccinations in the list of global threats to humanity. I would like to think that the current situation will change attitudes towards vaccinations, but judging by the number of people who do not even believe in vaccinations, but even in the coronavirus, this is still very far away ...
Online lectures by Tamara Eidelman:
Epidemics that changed the world
Pandemics and epidemics in the history of mankind: vaccines and medicines
Bible set for family reading. Parables of the Lord / Pravoslavie.
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Parable of the Prodigal Son
And He also said to the abounding with great comfort parable: “A certain man had two sons; And the youngest of them said to his father: Father! give me the next one part of the estate. And the father divided the estate between them. After the lapse of few days the youngest son, having collected everything, went to a distant side and there he squandered his estate, living dissolutely.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son When he had lived all, there came a great famine in that country, and he began to need; and went, stuck to one of the inhabitants of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine; And he was glad to fill his belly with horns that ate pigs, but no one gave him. Coming to himself, he said: how many of my father's hirelings have plenty of bread, and I I'm dying of hunger; I will get up and go to my father and say to him: father! I have sinned against heaven and before you and am no longer worthy be called your son; accept me as a mercenary yours.
He got up and went to his father. And when he was still far away, his father saw him and took pity; and, having run, fell on his neck and kissed him. The son said to him: Father! I sinned against heaven and before you and is no longer worthy be called your son.
And the father said to his servants: Bring the best clothes and clothe him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring a fattened calf, and kill it; let's eat and have fun! for this son of mine was dead and is alive again, he was lost and found. And they started having fun."
What soul does not rejoice, feeling in this story forgiveness and nothing, no sin can overcome the goodness of God to you!
Jesus adds in the parable of the prodigal son that when his older brother, returning home from the field, saw celebration in honor of the younger, guilty of his brother, he became angry and did not want to enter the house. father calmed him, saying: “My son! you are always with me and all mine is yours, and about that one must rejoice and be glad, that this brother of yours was dead and is alive again, was lost and found.
" (Luke 14:31-33; 15:7, 10-24, 31–32)
The mention of the elder brother of the prodigal son refers to those Jews who resented the merciful attitude of Jesus Christ to sinners and pagans.
The parable of the laborers in the vineyard
Also in the parables of the laborers in the vineyard who received equal pay for unequal labor, expressed the immeasurable love of God. The householder leaves the house early in the morning in order to hire workers in your vineyard, and throughout the day at different hours hires them, and at the end of the day gives the same pay to those who came work both earlier and later, as the Lord will do with repentant sinners, admitting them into His Kingdom Heavenly, and how He will accept the Gentiles into His Kingdom on an equal footing with the Jews first called by Him.
The Pharisees listened to the speeches of Jesus and laughed at Him. He is said to them, "You show yourselves to be righteous before people, but God knows your hearts, for what is high among people, that is an abomination before God.
Law and prophets before John; from this time the Kingdom of God is proclaimed, and every one by effort enters it. But rather heaven and earth pass away than one the line from the law will disappear.”
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus
Should have been even more convincing on the blinded minds of the lawyers the next parable of Jesus Christ.
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus: There was also a beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate in scabs and wanted to feed on the crumbs falling from the rich man's table, and the dogs, coming, licked his scabs “Some man was rich, dressed in purple and fine linen and feasted brilliantly every day. Was also a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was lying at his gate in scabs and wanted to feed on the crumbs falling from the table rich man, and the dogs came and licked his scabs.
The beggar died and He was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man died buried him. And in hell, being in torment, he looked up his own, saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, and crying out, he said: Father Abraham! have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cooled my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said: child! remember that you have already received your good your life, and Lazarus is evil; now he is here consoled, and you suffer; and above all, between us and you have established a great abyss, so that those who want to cross they cannot come to you from here, nor can they come to us from there.
Then he said: so I beg you, father, let's go him to my father's house, for I have five brothers; let him testify to them that they also should not come to this place torment.
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus: Father Abraham! have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame Abraham said to him: They have Moses and prophets; let them listen.
He said: No, Father Abraham, but if anyone from the dead will come to them, they will repent. Then Abraham said to him: If Moses and the prophets do not listen, then if someone from the dead is risen, they will not believe. (Luke 16:15-17, 19–31)
So the Pharisees, stubborn in their arrogance, will not even believe and in the risen Christ.
In this parable, the Lord also teaches about the immortality of the soul, about future life, about the restoration of justice, violated in the earthly life of a person, about the punishment of the evil, about retribution righteous, about suffering in eternity, as well as about eternal bliss.
The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee
So, in this still earthly life, the righteousness of the Pharisees was refuted and their prayer rejected. Meanwhile, the students The Lord encourages his own to be in constant prayer, teaching them, among other things, the parable of the unjust judge (cf.
OK. 18:2-7), who, however, could not stand against the urgent entreaty of the poor widow, and fulfilled her request. In addition, a versatile explanation what prayer can be heard and what rejected, Jesus Christ now tells the parable of the publican and the Pharisee, in which he perpetuates the image of the proud in self-adoration of a man who boldly addresses the sky with with his self-satisfied prayer: "Two men entered temple to pray: one is a Pharisee, and the other is a publican. Pharisee, standing up, he prayed in himself like this: God! thank you that I not like other people, robbers, offenders, adulterers, or like this publican: I fast twice a week, I give a tenth of everything I get. the publican, standing in the distance, he did not even dare to raise his eyes to the sky; but by hitting into his chest, saying: God! be merciful to me sinner!"
“I tell you,” Christ explained, “that this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles exalt himself.
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Other Teachings of the Lord
At the same time, the Lord teaches about the inseparability of the marital union originally established by God. (Luke 18, 10–14; see Lk. 16, 18. Matt. 19, 3–12)
The teachings of Jesus Christ also contain commands, binding on all, and the advice He addresses only to the chosen souls "who are able to accommodate". Here is His conversation with one young man, who, “coming up, said to him: Good teacher! what good can I do to have eternal life?
“But he said to him: why do you call me good? Nobody is good but God alone. If you want to enter eternal life, keep the commandments. He says to him: what? Jesus but he said: do not kill; do not commit adultery; do not steal; Not bear false witness; honor father and mother; and: love your neighbor, as himself.
The young man says to Him: I kept all this from my youth; what still missing me?
Jesus told him: if you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor; and you will have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.
Hearing this word, the young man departed with sadness, because he had big estate. Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I tell you that it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven; and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through needle ears than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
When His disciples heard this, they were very amazed and said, who can be saved? And Jesus looked up and said to them: With men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Then Peter answered and said to him, Behold, we have left everything and followed you; what will happen to us?
“Truly I tell you,” promised the Messiah, “ that on the day of judgment you who have followed me will sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. "AND whoever leaves homes, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for the sake of the name Mine, will receive a hundredfold and inherit life eternal.
" (Matthew 19, 16–29)
Such glorious promises kindled hope in the heart mothers of the sons of Zebedee, James and John, and she approached Jesus, and falling down at His feet, begged promise that both her sons will sit at his right hand side, and the other on the left in His kingdom.
Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I will drink, or be baptized with baptism, with which I am baptized?" "Can", - they answered him. And he said to them, You will have my cup drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized you will be baptized, but let me sit on my right side and on my left - does not depend on Me, but only on the will of My Father.
“Hearing this, the other ten disciples were indignant for two brothers. And Jesus, calling them, said, You know, that the princes of the nations rule over them, and the nobles rule over them; but let it not be so between you: and whoever wants between you to be b about greater, let him be your servant; and who wants to be the first among you, let him be your slave; because The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom many.
