Or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with (η το βαπτισμα ο εγω βαπτιζομα βαπτισθηνα). Cognate accusative with both p…

And be baptized with the baptism.—The clause seems to have been found originally in Mark only, and to have been added afterwards by the tr…

And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and th…

St. John Chrysostom: The disciples, hearing Christ speak often of His kingdom, thought that this kingdom was to come before Hi…

Jesus’ answer is sharp and penetrating. The two disciples did not really know what they were asking. The way to privileged position in the messiani…

But Jesus said to them
Not by granting them what they desired, but by observing their ignorance to them;