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8) Who made the request? (Matthew 20:20-21) Their mother requested that James and John, Zebedee’s children, should sit beside Jesus in his Kingdom. (Mark 10:35-37) James and John, Zebedee’s children, requested that they should sit beside Jesus in his Kingdom.
I accidentally posted the objection twice rather than a response.

Their Mother made the request.

"In a similar way, in the ancient world it was perfectly understood and accepted that actions were often attributed to people when in fact they occurred through their subordinates or emissaries-in this case through the Jewish people."
(Craig Blomberg in The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel, 1998, p. 46)
In the case of James and John it was the request was made by someone who had some authority over them, that is their Mother. The same is true of the Centurion though it was through his emissary (Matt. 8:5-9, Luke 7:2-10).