This situation is a result of Jesus’s second prediction of His death, burial, and resurrection and the lack of knowledge displayed by his disciples. While Jesus is predicting His death, burial, and resurrection the disciples are arguing about which one of them will be the greatest in Jesus’s presumed earthly kingdom. In Matthew’s account the disciples asked Jesus, who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, which the perspective of an earthly kingdom. While Mark says that Jesus was the one who asked about what they were arguing about on the road. The disciples must have brought it up to Jesus on the road, but Jesus knowing their hearts waited until they were in the house to have a collective and intentional conversation, which the topic was worth having. Jesus is still on teaching mode and preparing His disciples for His ascension back to heaven and the great commission He will be sending them on. He intentionally begins to teach them vital lessons that would ground them for the commission and prepare them for success on His way to the cross. His first lesson was on the mount of transfiguration in showing them that He is Shekinah Glory or God Himself made flesh (9:1-13). His second lesson was of having faith in the one who makes all things possible fueled by a prayer life in dependence upon the Lord (9:14-29). His third lesson was in gaining constant knowledge of the Lord and continually learning and growing by coming to Jesus (9:30-32). This lesson would be crucial and vital to the commission God has appointed and preparing them for that would become the foundation of their mission of spreading the gospel, making disciples, and teaching all to obey all that God has commanded. From knowing that Jesus is God; keeping their faith in Him, growing in their knowledge of Him, and now being taught who is the greatest amongst them, these things were lessons to be taught to the disciple for the mission to come. ​ We can learn three vital lessons from this lesson given to the disciples by the Lord Jesus Christ that would keep us on mission and accomplishing the great commission in our lives and through our church:​