Matthew 20:20

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

In Context

19and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

21And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak [the word] that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:11And having come into the house they saw the little child with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

Matthew 8:2And behold, a leper came up to [him] and did him homage, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.

Matthew 15:25But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

Matthew 28:17And when they saw him, they did homage to him: but some doubted.

Mark 15:40And there were women also looking on from afar off, among whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:18-20

The Sufferings of Christ Predicted. 17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, 18 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, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. This is the third time that Christ gave his disciples notice of his approaching sufferings; he was not… Read the whole commentary →

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