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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 10:38 - 10:38
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But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask - How gentle the reply to such a request, preferred at such a time, after the sad announcement just made!
can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? - To “drink of a cup” is in Scripture a figure for getting one’s fill either of good (Psa 16:5; Psa 23:5; Psa 116:13; Jer 16:7) or of ill (Psa 75:8; Joh 18:11; Rev 14:10). Here it is the cup of suffering.
and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? - (Compare for the language, Psa 42:7). The object of this question seems to have been to try how far those two men were capable of the dignity to which they aspired and this on the principle that he who is able to suffer most for His sake will be the nearest to Him in His kingdom.