Patristic
“(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) The disciples indeed wished to receive honour at the hands of the Lord; they also had a desire to be made great by Christ, for the greater a man is, the more worthy of honour he becomes, for which reason He did not throw an obstacle in the way of that desire, but brought in humility.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Mark, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 9:30-37
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1842) ↗