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Matthew 20:20
Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshiping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him.
Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshiping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him.
Verse Matthew 20:20. _THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN_] This was _Salome_....
See also Mark 10:35. Matthew 20:20 THEN CAME TO HIM GIVE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE’S CHILDREN ... - This was probably Salome, Mark 15:40;...
8. THE PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD. The Healing of the Two Blind Men. CHAPTER 20 1. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. (Matthew 20:1 .) 2. The Third Prediction of His Death an...
THE REQUEST OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE. THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD OF GREATNESS (Mark 10:35 *, Luke 22:24). Mt. makes the mother of James and John ask the boon, but Jesus replies to them, not to her. For Mk.'...
At that time the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons, kneeling before him, and asking something from him. He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to him, "Speak the word that these...
THE MASTER SEEKS HIS WORKERS (Matthew 20:1-16)...
CAME. With her sons. Mark 10:35 "came [with their mother]". THE MOTHER. _Salome._ Compare Matthew 27:56 with Mark 15:40. ZEBEDEE'S. See note on...
Salome's Prayer for her sons, and the Answer of Jesus Mark 10:35-41. St Mark begins "And James and John the sons of Zebedee came unto him, saying, &c." For once St Matthew is more graphic and true to...
_the mother of Zebedee's children_ Her name was Salome, as we learn by comparing Matthew 27:56 with Mark 15:40. "Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother...
Ἡ ΜΉΤΗΡ ΤΩ͂Ν ΥἹΩ͂Ν ΖΕΒΕΔΑΊΟΥ. Her name was Salome, as we learn by comparing Matthew 27:56 with Mark 15:40. ‘Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Ze...
SALOME’S PRAYER FOR HER SONS, AND THE ANSWER OF JESUS Mark 10:35-45. St Mark begins ‘And James and John the sons of Zebedee came unto him, saying, &c.’ For once St Matthew is more graphic and true to...
Ver 20. Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21. And he said unto her, "What wilt thou?" She saith unto him, "Grant th...
_AT THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE MATTHEW 20:20-28:_ On at least three occasions there was a discussion among the apostles concerning greatness in the kingdom. (Matthew 18:1-4; Ma...
ΠΡΟΣΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) подходить (с _dat._). ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. part. пот. fem. sing. от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΈΩ (G4352) поклоняться, выказывать уважение (TDNT; EDNT). ΑΙΤΟΎΣΑ _p...
THEN CAME TO HIM, &C.— Our Saviour's predictions respecting his sufferings were either not understood by his disciples, or at least they apprehended that, whatever difficulties lay in the way, those s...
Section 52 JESUS REFUSES TO ESTABLISH HIERARCHY (Parallel: Mark 10:35-45) TEXT: 20:20-28 20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping _him,_ and asking a certain...
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 10:32....
23 As the political constitution of the Jewish commonwealth rendered it practically impossible to acquire great possessions without oppressing others, riches were a hindrance and are largely lost in t...
THE AMBITION OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE (Mark 10:35). The special promise to Peter (Matthew 16:18) had aroused the jealousy of the other two most intimate disciples, who now came to claim the two most pro...
THE MOTHER] Her name was Salome (Matthew 27:56 compared with Mark 15:40), and it is generally supposed that she was sister to the Virgin, and therefore our Lord's aunt: see on John 19:25....
THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD. THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM 1-16, Parable of the labourers in the vineyard (peculiar to St. Matthew). This difficult parable is closely linked with what goes before, and ca...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 20 THE STORY ABOUT THE LAND-OWNER’S WORKERS 20:1-16 V1 ‘Where God rules, it is like this. A man who owned land went out early one mo...
THEN CAME TO HIM THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE’S CHILDREN. — The state of feeling described in the previous Note supplies the only explanation of a request so strange. The mother of James and John (we find on...
CHAPTER 16 To Jerusalem - Matthew 20:17 - Matthew 21:1 I-THE GOING UP. Matthew 20:17 WE have now reached the last stage of the long and sorrowful journey to Jerusalem. From the corresponding passage...
_The two sons of Zebedee_ (Mark 10:35-45)....
τότε (in Mk. the vaguer καὶ), _then_; let us hope not quite immediately after, but it need not have been long after. How soon children forget doleful news and return to their play; a beneficent provis...
SERVING NOBLER THAN SELF-SEEKING Matthew 20:17-28 For the third time our Lord foretells His death. In Matthew 16:21, He dwelt especially on the shame of His rejection; in Matthew 17:23, He told how t...
One great principle of rewards is laid down in this parable. It is that they will be given, not according to length or amount of service, but according to fidelity to opportunities. The Master was now...
(5) Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him. (5) The manner of the heavenly kingdom is quite contrary to the earthly ki...
Then came to him. Upon Christ's informing his apostles that he should die and rise again, they conceived that he would immediately reign in Jerusalem with great glory and power; and it was this made t...
AMBITION OF JAMES AND JOHN Matthew 20:20-28; Mark 1:35-45. “James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to Him, saying, Teacher, we wish that You may do to us whatsoever we may ask. And He said to them,...
"Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. (21) And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE REFORM OF THE IDLER_ ‘Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us.’ Matthew 20 part Matthew 20:6 This parable is one of the most difficult in the New Te...
Matthew 20:20._Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children. _This narrative contains a bright mirror of human vanity; for it shows that proper and holy zeal is often accompanied by ambition, or...
We may remark that, when the Lord answers Peter, it was the consequence of having left all for Christ upon His call. The motive was Christ Himself: therefore He says, "Ye which have followed me." He s...
THEN CAME TO HIM THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN,.... Whose name was Salome, as may be concluded from Matthew 27:56 compared with Mark 15:40. She is not called the wife of Zebedee, who might be now d...
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping _him_, and desiring a certain thing of him. Ver. 20. _Then came to him, &c._] Then, most unseasonably, when Christ had by...
_Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children_ Instigated, it seems, by them. See Mark 10:35. _With her sons_ James and John; _worshipping him_ That is, falling down before him; _and desiring a c...
ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN; James and John....
The principle of the first and the last is now illustrated in a most penetrating parable of the kingdom of heaven. The householder goes out early in the morning to hire labourers to work in his vineya...
20-28 The sons of Zebedee abused what Christ said to comfort the disciples. Some cannot have comforts but they turn them to a wrong purpose. Pride is a sin that most easily besets us; it is sinful am...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 20:21"....
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus drew near unto Him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshipping, and seeking a certain thing from Him."[119] Tertullian Scorpiace teness,...
Matthew 20:20 Then G5119 mother G3384 Zebedees G2199 sons G5207 came G4334 (G5627) Him G846 with G3326 her...
THOSE WHO FOLLOW JESUS ARE NOT TO BE SELF-SEEKING BUT SELFLESSLY SEEKING TO SERVE ALL, IN THE SAME WAY AS HE AS THE SERVANT IS DOING AMONG THEM, SOMETHING ESPECIALLY REVEALED IN HIS GIVING OF HIS LIFE...
‘Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping him, and asking a certain thing of him.” In the context of His speaking of His death the mother of two of His disciples,...
Matthew 20:20. THE MOTHER OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE. Salome, according to an ancient tradition, the daughter of Joseph by a previous marriage; more probably the sister of Mary the mother of Jesus. Comp....
CHRONOLOGY. The final journey to Jerusalem begins. The approach of His death calls for a third prediction to the Twelve, more specific in its details. The _crucifixion_ is mentioned only in Matthew's...
THEN (τοτε). Surely an inopportune time for such a request just after the pointed prediction of Christ's crucifixion. Perhaps their minds had been preoccupied with the words of Jesus (Matthew 19:28)...
Matthew 20:20 _(with Mark 10:35)_ I. Comparing St. Matthew's and St. Mark's accounts, we see that it was the mother and sons together who made the request. It is a homely human picture of ambition he...
Matthew 20:1. _For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers f...
CONTENTS: Parables of laborers in the vineyard. Jesus' death and resurrection again foretold. Ambitious requests of James and John. Healing of the two blind men. CHARACTERS: Jesus, wife of Zebedee, J...
Matthew 20:1. _A householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers_ for the work of his vineyard, the time, the most important time of the vintage being understood. It was the custom...
THEN THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S SONS. Salome, mother of James and John, who was probably a sister of the mother of Jesus. [_See note on_ John 19:25.]...
_Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons._ NEAREST TO CHRIST Christ does not put aside the granting of places at His right and left hand as not being within His province, but...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 20:20 Salome (see Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40;...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT SERVING OTHERS MATTHEW 20:20-28; MARK 10:35-45; MATTHEW 20:20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [_him_], and desiring a certain thing of...
CHAPTER 20 _The kingdom of heaven is like._ That is, God acts in the kingdom of Heaven like a master hiring labourers into his vineyard; for strictly speaking, the kingdom of Heaven is not like the h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 20:17. JESUS GOING UP TO JERUSALEM.—The narrative is not continuous, and in the interval between Matthew 20:16 we may probably place our Lord’s “abode beyond Jordan” (John 10:...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 20:1 _Parable of the labourers in the vineyard_._ _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) MATTHEW 20:1 FOR. The following parable is intended to illustrate the apophthegm at the end of the...
Shall we turn to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty, and continue our book-by-book study through the Word of God? Matthew chapter twenty opens with the parable of the laborers going out into the vineyard...
Mark 10:35; Mark 15:40; Matthew 14:33; Matthew 15:25; Matthew 2:11;...
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children — Considering what he had been just speaking, was ever any thing more unreasonable? Perhaps Zebedee himself was dead, or was not a follower of Christ....
(CF. MARK 10:35)— Who came to talk with Jesus, the mother of James and John or James and John? PROBLEM: In Matthew, the mother of James and John made a request of Jesus. However, Mark states that it...
To sit on the right hand, and on the left, is to have the most eminent places of dignity and honour after Christ. This the mother might be encouraged to ask for James and John, because of their allian...