Mark 10:36

36 But he said to them: What would you that I should 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 shall mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying: Master, we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us.

36 But he said to them: What would you that I should do for you?

37 And they said: Grant to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

38 And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?