in the new light of his passion prediction. This episode teaches the disciples, and indeed the crowd, that they need to see their lives in a new light as well. They must learn to replace human values, which promote self and ambition, with the divine logic of triumph through death. This is the first of several passages on the nature, cost and consequences of discipleship. Comment 34. The presence of a crowd of people who are at least potentially followers of Jesus suggests that Jesus and the disciples