Be the GOAT!

They wanted to be the GOAT!  The Greatest Of All Time!  Or at least they wanted to sit next to him when he's the GOAT.  The problem is that to become the greatest, we first have to go through a series of trials, tribulations, sufferings, and hardships.  Jesus calls these "drinking the cup he will drink" and "being baptized with the baptism with which he will be baptized."  As we see in Jesus' final days of mortal life, becoming the GOAT is not easy task!  We can't just ask for it; it won't just be given to us.  He even went through beatings, crucifixion, and death for it!  But that's the way we become great, isn't it, enduring all the pain and suffering of life for Jesus' sake?  And of course the reward is totally worth it in the end!