Ye know not what ye ask (ουκ οιδατε τ αιτεισθε). How often that is true. Αιτεισθε is indirect middle voice, "ask for yourselves," …

Ye know not what ye ask. You do not know the nature of your request, nor what would be involved in it. You suppose that it would be attend…

You do not know what you ask — The words come to us as spoken in a tone of infinite tenderness and sadness. That nearness to Him i…

The petition of the mother was that of the sons also, for Jesus answered and said, “Ye know not what ye ask.” As from the mother, the requ…

St. Jerome: The Lord, having concluded by saying, And shall rise again the third day, the woman thought that after H…

Jesus’ answer is not severe but mingles firmness with probing. It is often ignorance that seeks leadership, power, and glory; the brothers do not n…

You know not what you ask. Their ignorance deserved blame on two accounts: first, because their ambition led them to desire more than was …

But Jesus answered, and said
To her two sons,

you know not what you ask.
They …

The sons of Zebedee misused what Christ said to comfort the disciples. Some people cannot receive comforts without turning them to a wrong purpose.…

In the preceding section, the Lord refuted those who attempted to obtain glory because of a long period of time; here, He refutes the one who attem…