Jesus, on the road to his death, about to leave these guys in charge of God’s eternal plan of salvation, now has his disciples arguing about who is the greatest among them. Notice something very significant about that. He did not on this or on any other occasion rebuke them for wanting to be greatest. God has somehow built into every human heart the desire to succeed at whatever we do, in whatever terms we may conceive success to lie. He did not rebuke them, for this is part of our humanity -- to want to succeed, to be the greatest. What he did do was to tell them the true way to greatness. "Whoever wants to be first,” he says, “must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.”