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Mat_20:21. She thus designates the two most distinguished positions in the Messiah’s kingdom. For among Orientals the foremost place of honour was considered to be immediately on the right, and the next immediately on the left of the king, Joseph. Antt. vi. 11.9; Wetstein and Paulus on this passage. She desired to see her sons not merely in the position of ordinary συγκληρονόμοι and συμβασιλεύοντες (Rev_3:21), but in that of the most distinguished proceres regni.
εἰπὲ ἵνα ] as in Mat_4:3. The fact that the gentle and humble John should also have shared this wish (for both the disciples, in whose name also the mother is speaking, are likewise to be regarded as joining in the request, Mat_20:22, so that there cannot be said to be any essential difference between the present passage and Mar_10:35), shows how much his character must subsequently have been changed. Comp. Introduction to John, § 3.