Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 20:21

21 And he saith unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two Sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other the left, in thy Kingdom.

Mark saith Chap. 10.35. And Iames, and Iohn, the Son, of Zebedee, came unto him saying, Master, we would that thou should do for us what we desire. And he said, what would you, that I should do for you? They said unto him, Grant unto us, that we may sit, one on thy right Hand, the other on thy left Hand in thy Glory. Matthew's saying, In thy Kingdom, Mark, In thy Glory, leaves us in some doubt whether these two Disciples and their Mother, had here some carnal Notion of the Kingdom of Heaven, because Christ had before spoken of some that should be first in it, and others last. Or were in some expectation of some glorious secular Kingdom, which Christ after his Resurrection should exercise in the World; for that they had some such Thoughts, appears from Luke 22.24. Acts 1.6. This Mother of Iames and Iohn was Salome Mark. 15.40. A constant follower of Christ, Mat 27.55, 56. Matthew saith she spake, Mark saith her two Sons spake. They would first have had a general Grant from Christ of whatsoever they should ask, or a certain thing. But wise Men use not to grant such Requests; Our Lord askes them what they would desire? Then do they betray their Ambition. Was there ever a more unseasonable Request, than for them to be Suitors for great Places to him, when he had but now told them, he was going to be Spit upon, Scourged, Condemned, Crucified? Yet there was this good in it, they by it discovered a Faith in him, that notwithstanding all this, he should be exalted, and have a Kingdom. But how carnal are our Conceptions of Spiritual and Heavenly Things, till we be taught of God a right Notion of them?