Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 9:34

34 But they held their peace, For by the way they had disputed among themselves who should be the greatest.

This Ambition of the Disciples we have had occasion before to Discourse of, in the Notes on Matth. 18.1. It was founded upon their mistake of the true Nature of the Kingdom of the Messiah, which they at this time, and a long time after (even to the time of Christs Ascension, as appeareth by Acts 1.6.) understood of a temporal, secular Kingdom, in the Administration of which, he should deliver the Jews from all Slavery, and Bondage, this made their Minds so often run of Dignities, and Places which he should in that Administration, have a Power to dispose of. This made the Mother of Zebedees Children, petition for places for her two Sons.