Mark 10:36

36 And he said to them, "What do you want that I do for you?"

Mark 10:36 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:36

And he said unto them
And also to their mother, and to them by her, what

would ye that I should do for you?
Christ insists upon their telling him the particular thing they wanted to have done for them, before he would give them any promise, though he knew very well what it was they were desirous of.

Mark 10:36 In-Context

34 And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill [him], and after three days he will rise."

35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him [and] said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you."

36 And he said to them, "What do you want that I do for you?"

37 So they said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit one at your right hand and one at [your] left in your glory."

38 But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts have "do you want me to do"