Mark 10:40 (WEB)
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”
Fathers and councils · 17
Theodoret of Cyrus
“If then the offering of gifts is the special function of priests and Christ in His humanity was called priest and offered no other sacrifice save His own body, then the Lord Christ had a body.” — editor's note: I have no hesitation in translating ἀλλὰ here by “save,” in spite of the purist prejudice which has led even the revisers of 1881 to retain something of the…
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Ambrose of Milan
“…without their mother, He said nothing about the Father; for thus it is written: “It is not Mine to give to you, but those for whom it has been prepared.”” — editor's note: S. Mark x. 40.
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Augustine of Hippo
Chapter VII.—Of the Fact that from This Point on to the Lord’s Supper, with Which Act the Discussion of All the Narratives of the Four Evangelists Conjointly Commenced, No Question Calling for Special Examination is…
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore He said to the sons of Zebedee, “It is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by my Father” ( Mark x. 40 ), yet He it is that judgeth.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Mark
The disciples hearing Christ oftentimes speaking of His kingdom, thought that this kingdom was to be before His death, and therefore now that His death was foretold to them, they came to Him, that they might…
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Now the abovementioned disciples thought that He was going up to Jerusalem, to reign there, and then to suffer what He had foretold. And with these thoughts, they desired to sit on the right hand and the left hand.…
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Matthew has expressed that this was said not by themselves, but by their mother, since she brought their wishes to the Lord; wherefore Mark briefly implies rather that they themselves, rather than their mother, had…
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Or we may fitly say that both took place; for seeing themselves honoured above the rest, they thought that they could easily obtain the foregoing petition; and that they might the more easily succeed in their…
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Then the Lord both according to Mark, and to Matthew, answered them rather than their mother. For it goes on: “But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask.”
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It will not be as ye think, that I am to reign as a temporal king in Jerusalem, but all these things, that is, these which belong to My kingdom, are beyond your understanding; for to site on My right hand is so great…
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Or else, they know not what they ask, who seek from the Lord a seat of glory, which they do not yet merit.
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Or else He says, “Ye know not what ye ask”; as if He said, Ye speak of honours, but I am discoursing of wrestlings and toil; for this is not a time of rewards, but of blood, of battles, and dangers. Wherefore He…
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But by the cup and baptism, He means the cross; the cup, that is, as being a potion by Him sweetly received, but baptism as the cause of the cleansing of our sins. And they answer Him, without understanding what He…
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And they answered thus quickly, because they expected that what they had asked would be listened to; it goes on: “And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that…
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A question is raised, however, how James and John drank the cup of martyrdom, or how they were baptized with the baptism of the Lord, when the Scripture relates, that only James the Apostle was beheaded by Herod…
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Where two questions are raised, one is, whether a seat on His right hand is prepared for any one; the other, whether the Lord of all has it not in His power to give it to those for whom it is prepared. To the first…
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Or else, it is not mine to give to you, that is, to proud persons, for such as yet they were. It is prepared for other persons, and be ye other, that is, lowly, and it is prepared for you.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together with
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 66.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 66.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 66.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 66.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Mark 10:35–40 (5) (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Parallel passages
Matthew 20:23 and Mark 10:40 share the same wording (19 words).
