Ver. 33,34. This ambition of the disciples we have had occasion before to discourse of; See Poole on "Matthew 18:1". It has founded upon their mistake of the true nature of the kingdom of the Messiah, which they at this time, and a long time after, (even to the time of Christ's ascension, as appeareth by Acts 1:6), understood of a temporal, secular kingdom, in the administration of which he should deliver the Jews from all slavery and bondage: this made their minds so often run of dignities and places which he should, in that administration, have a power to dispose of. This made the mother of Zebedee's children petition for places for her two sons.
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Mark 9:33
33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them,What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?