Mark 10:36

36 And he said to them, What would ye 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 will mock him, and will scourge him, and will spit upon him, and will kill him: and the third day he will rise again.

35 And James and John the sons of Zebedee come to him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatever we shall desire.

36 And he said to them, What would ye that I should do for you?

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

38 But Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?