Ver. 20,21. Mark saith, Mar_10:35, And James and John, thesons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thoushouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. And he said, Whatwould ye that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant untous that we may sit, one on thy right hand, the other on thy lefthand in thy glory. Matthew’s saying in thy kingdom, Mark, in thy glory, leaves us in some doubt whether these two disciples and their mother had here some carnal notion of the kingdom of heaven, because Christ had before spoken of some that should be first in it, and others last; or were in some expectation of some glorious secular kingdom, which Christ after his resurrection should exercise in the world; for that they had some such thoughts appears from Luk_22:24Act_1:6. This mother of James and John was Salome, Mar_15:40, a constant follower of Christ, Mat_27:55,56. Matthew saith she spake. Mark saith her two sons spake. They would first have had a general grant from Christ of whatsoever they should ask, or a certain thing. But wise men use not to grant such requests. Our Lord asks them what they would desire. Then do they betray their ambition. Was there ever a more unseasonable request, than for them to be suitors for great places to him, when he had but now told them he was going to be spit upon, scourged, condemned, crucified? Yet there was this good in it; they by it discovered a faith in him, that notwithstanding all this he should be exalted, and have a kingdom. But how carnal are our conceptions of spiritual and heavenly things, till we be taught of God a right notion of them!