Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshiping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
It seems that both the mother and the two sons of Zebedee together came to him, with the purpose of making their supplication stronger and in this way to prevail with Christ. Mark well how Christ responds to them, and you will see better through their motive, since the request was doubtless their own, but they put forward their mother to make it. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
