MARK 10:38 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
You don't know what you are asking, Jesus said. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? — the cup (the cup of suffering, Psalm 75:8, Isaiah 51:17) and the baptism (of suffering and death, not the Jordan baptism) are the path to the glory James and John are requesting. You don't know what you are asking — their ignorance is genuine. The cup and baptism metaphors point to the passion — the question is whether they can share what Jesus is about to undergo.
Church Fathers on Mark 10:38
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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