Mark 10:41

41 And [when they] heard [this], the ten began to be indignant about James and John.

Mark 10:41 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:41

And when the ten heard it
The request made by the sons of Zebedee or their mother for them:

they began to be much displeased with James and John;
Matthew says "they were moved with indignation against them", ( Matthew 20:24 ) ; they were filled with, wrath and were very angry with them; which they showed in their countenances and by their behaviour towards them as well as by words: the Syriac and Arabic versions, render it, "they began to murmur against them"; they highly resented it and were ready to break out into an open quarrel upon it; (See Gill on Matthew 20:24).

Mark 10:41 In-Context

39 And they said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup that I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with,

40 but to sit at my right hand or at [my] left is not mine to grant, but [is] for those for whom it has been prepared."

41 And [when they] heard [this], the ten began to be indignant about James and John.

42 And Jesus called them to himself [and] said to them, "You know that those who are considered to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their [people] in high positions exercise authority over them.

43 But it is not like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation