MARK 10:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?”
What do you want me to do for you? he asked — the question is the same Jesus will ask blind Bartimaeus in verse 51. The contrast is deliberate: James and John answer with an ambition request; Bartimaeus answers with a healing request. The disciples who have seen everything ask for status; the blind beggar on the roadside asks for sight. The irony indicts James and John by comparison.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:36
Now the abovementioned disciples thought that He was going up to Jerusalem, to reign there, and then to suffer what He had foretold. And with these thoughts, they desired to sit on the right hand and the left hand.
Matthew has expressed that this was said not by themselves, but by their mother, since she brought their wishes to the Lord; wherefore Mark briefly implies rather that they themselves, rather than their mother, had used the words.
Or else, they know not what they ask, who seek from the Lord a seat of glory, which they do not yet merit.
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