Mark 10:40

But so shall it not be among you,.... Or "so let it not be", as in many copies; or as the Persic version renders it, "it ought not to be so among you"; such a lordly spirit does not become you; this…

See the notes at Mat 20:20-28. Mar 10:35 And James and John ...came unto him - They did this through the instrumentality of their mother. They did not come in “person,” but they got their mother to…

Here is, I. Christ's prediction of his own sufferings; this string he harped much upon, though in the ears of his disciples it sounded very harsh and unpleasing.

1. See here how bold he was; when they…

but it shall be given This is not a very happy interpolation. The verse really runs thus: But to sit on My right hand and on My left hand is not mine to give except to those for whom it is prepared.…