John Gill's Exposition on Mark 10:41

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when the ten heard it, etc..] The request made by the sons of Zebedee or their mother for them: they began to be much displeased with James and John; Matthew says “they were moved with indignation against them”, (<402024>Matthew 20:24); they were filled with, wrath and were very angry with them; which they showed in their countenances and by their behaviour towards them as well as by words: the Syriac and Arabic versions, render it, “they began to murmur against them”; they highly resented it and were ready to break out into an open quarrel upon it; (see Gill on “<402024>Matthew 20:24”).

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