NAC, NIGTC, NTC, Rb; NET]. It means to be most important [AB]. There is a play on this one word: ‘greatest’ (22:24), ‘greatest’ (22:26), and ‘greater’ (22:27) [NAC]. See the preceding lexical item for translations of this word. See this word at 1:15, 32; 7:28; 9:46. QUESTION—How is this verse connected with the previous one? The question about which was the worst among them led to the question of which was the greatest among them [Alf, Gdt, NIBC, Su, WBC]. The word καί ‘also’ links this argument