Matthew 20:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.

Ver. 24. They were moved] They were angry at that ambition in their fellows, that themselves were deeply guilty of. So Diogenes trampled Plato's pride, but with greater pride. So Crassus earnestly inveighed against covetousness in others, when there was not a more covetous caitiff (wretch) than he upon the earth. So Gregory the Great stomached the title of universal bishop to the patriarch of Constantinople, which yet himself affected, and his successor, Boniface, arrogated and usurped.

Matthew 20:24

24 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.