had bestowed upon them ; see Gnomon on Mark iii. 17. — luioi pou, my sons) Natural relationship had nothing to do with this. — ex, df%iuv 00^ on Thy right hand) The words ra 8e%ia signify, passim, the right hand, foot, and side. Before then, Jesus would have others on His right and left ; see ch. xxvii. 38.2 — efg, one) It may be supposed that the order of the disciples in their glory will correspond to the order in their office.
22. EJirsv, said) gravely, and with pity. — ovx o'/dare, ye do not know) Ye do not know what My glory is, what it is to sit on My right hand and on My left, to whom it is given, and what is re quired beforehand. — ri alnTuSi, what ye ask) sc. what it is that ye ask.3 — dvvu.<sdt ; can ye ?) He replies to the sons, instead of the mother, Are you equal to this ? — ri> vorripiov, the cup) In St Mark He speaks also of " the baptism ;" see the Gnomon on Mark x. 38, 39. Some copies of Matthew have the clause con cerning baptism, others are without it.4 — 6 lyw, which I) Jesus already as it were then dwelt on His passion, and draws His dis course from it ; and the speech of those two, whom He thus directs to follow Him, was, as it were, outstripping not only their ten fellow-disciples, but also the Lord Himself.5 — dwapeda, we are
1 O/ §yo) She seemed to herself at the time to be speaking altogether sea sonably. — V. g.
2 Sc. The two thieves who were crucified with Him. — (I. D.)
3 One ought to know this, who wishes to ask.— V. g.
4 In his Apparatus Criticus, Bengel says on this passage —
22 %) Comp. Aug. 1, 2 ; Colb. 5 ft Colb. n. 4112 ; Cypr. Laud. 2,4; M. 1,2; Wo. 1, 2, et e Classe ii. undecim alii, pluresve, Pers. Rus. Syr. x.a.1 Er. et al. E. Marco. ^[ ij TO usq. /3<*7rr/<r9»jv«<) edd. MSS. Arab. Heir. Pers. Rus. Sj/r. Cfirys., Opus imperf. Basilius Sel. Thcophyl. (-— ) Origenes, Epl- phanius, JEth. Copt. Lat. et inde Cant. Colbert, n. 2467, Steph. n. Sax. Ambr. Hilar. Hieron., Tr. de Bapt. inter opera Cypriani. — (1. B.)
Rec. Text with C adds after vm/y, >j (»#<) TO ftoiVTiaf^ct 6 tya fiaTrTt^ofiiu fiavTiadiivMi. But BDLZfc Vu]g. Memph. Theb. Orig. 3,717c, 7196 (as cribing the words to Mark), Hil. 709, omit the words. — ED.
However the margin of Ed. 2 reckons that clause concerning the baptism among the readings better established in the following verse than in this verse.— E. B.
Rec. Text adds in ver. 23, with C, x.«,\ TO /3»7rTi<rf*,et 6 lyu /3«7rr/£V*< fictKTiadriaiade. But BDLZaic, and the others quoted in note, vcr. 22, reject the words. — ED.
5 What Beng. seems to mean is, The request of the two sons of Zebedee, as it were, went before even Himself, not to say the ten disciples, in proceed-