Mark - 10:36



36 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

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and he said to them, 'What do ye wish me to do for you?'
"What would you have me do for you?" He asked.

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And he said unto them,.... And also to their mother, and to them by her, what
would ye that I should do for you? Christ insists upon their telling him the particular thing they wanted to have done for them, before he would give them any promise, though he knew very well what it was they were desirous of.

And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?--Though well aware what was in their mind and their mother's, our Lord will have the unseemly petition uttered before all.

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