马可福音 10:40

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

只是坐在我的左右，不是我可以賜的，而是　神預備賜給誰，就賜給誰。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
只 是 坐 在 我 的 左 右 ， 不 是 我 可 以 赐 的 ， 乃 是 为 谁 预 备 的 ， 就 赐 给 谁 。

Contextual Overview

³² As Jesus and the people with him were on the road to Jerusalem, he was leading the way. His followers were amazed, but others in the crowd who followed were afraid. Again Jesus took the twelve apostles aside and began to tell them what was about to happen in Jerusalem. ³³ He said, "Look, we are going to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be turned over to the leading priests and the teachers of the law. They will say that he must die, and they will turn him over to the non-Jewish people, ³⁴ who will laugh at him and spit on him. They will beat him with whips and crucify him. But on the third day, he will rise to life again." ³⁵ Then James and John, sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said, "Teacher, we want to ask you to do something for us." ³⁶ Jesus asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³⁷ They answered, "Let one of us sit at your right side and one of us sit at your left side in your glory in your kingdom." ³⁸ Jesus said, "You don't understand what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I must drink? And can you be baptized with the same kind of baptism that I must go through?" ³⁹ They answered, "Yes, we can." Jesus said to them, "You will drink the same cup that I will drink, and you will be baptized with the same baptism that I must go through. ⁴⁰ But I cannot choose who will sit at my right or my left; those places belong to those for whom they have been prepared." ⁴¹ When the other ten followers heard this, they began to be angry with James and John.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 20:23, Matthew 25:34, John 17:2, John 17:24, Hebrews 11:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:32 - established by Acts 1:7 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But to sit on my right hand and on my left, is mine to give,.... There being no such places in his kingdom in the sense they petitioned; and as for the glories of the heavenly state or eternal life, the gift of these was not to be settled now it being done already: and though he had a power to give yet only to them who were given him of his Father and who were ordained to such happiness as it follows:

but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared; that is, of his Father as is expressed in Matthew 20:23 which is not to be understood as excluding these two persons but as including all others with them for whom the kingdom was prepared before the foundation of the world: the Ethiopic version therefore wrongly renders the words "but to sit on my right hand and on my left, I do not give to you, it is prepared for other": the Jew g very badly concludes from hence against the deity of Christ and his unity with the Father he not having power to do this; whereas Christ does not say he had no power to give this honour, but only describes the persons to whom he should give it; and these being persons for whom it, is prepared by his Father instead of destroying, proves their unity.

g R. Isaac, Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 20. p. 409.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 20:20-28.

Mark 10:35

And James and John ...came unto him - They did this through the instrumentality of their mother. They did not come in “person,” but they got their mother to make the request for them. Compare the notes at Matthew 20:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. Is not mine to give — Matthew 20:23; Matthew 20:23.