Chapter LXIV.—Of the Occasions on Which He Foretold His Passion in Private to His
Disciples; And of the Time When the Mother of Zebedee’s Children Came with Her Sons,
Requesting that One of Them Should Sit on His Right Hand, and the Other on His Left
Hand; And of the Absence of Any Discrepancy Between Matthew and the Other Two
Evangelists on These Subjects.
124. Matthew continues his narrative in the following terms: “And Jesus, going up to
Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem;
and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they
shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge,
and to crucify Him; and the third day He shall rise again. Then came to Him the mother of
Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him;”
and so on, down to the words, “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but
to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.”1122 Here again Mark keeps the same
order as Matthew, only he represents the sons of Zebedee to have made the request them-
selves; while Matthew has stated that it was preferred on their behalf not by their own per-
sonal application, but by their mother, as she had laid what was their wish before the Lord.
Hence Mark has briefly intimated what was said on that occasion as spoken by them, rather
than by her [in their name]. And to conclude with the matter, it is to them rather than to
her, according to Matthew no less than according to Mark, that the Lord returned His reply.
Luke, on the other hand, after narrating in the same order our Lord’s predictions to the
twelve disciples on the subject of His passion and resurrection, leaves unnoticed what the
other two evangelists immediately go on to record; and after the interposition of these pas-
sages, he is joined by his fellow-writers again [at the point where they report the incident]
at Jericho. 1123 Moreover, as to what Matthew and Mark have stated with respect to the
princes of the Gentiles exercising dominion over those who are subject to them,—namely,
that it should not be so with them [the disciples], but that he who was greatest among them
should even be a servant to the others,—Luke also gives us something of the same tenor,
although not in that connection;1124 and the order itself indicates that the same sentiment
was expressed by the Lord on a second occasion.
1122 Matt. xx. 17–28.
1123 Luke xviii. 31–35.
1124 Luke xxii. 24–27.
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