New Revised Standard Version
But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.

Contemporary English Version
They had been arguing about which one of them was the greatest, and so they did not answer.

New American Bible
But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest.

But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest.

they had.

Matthew 18:1 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?

*etc:

Matthew 20:21-24 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. . . .

Luke 9:46-48 And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be greater. . . .

Luke 22:24 And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater.

*etc:

Romans 12:10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Philippians 2:3-7 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves: . . .

1 Peter 5:3 Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

3 John 1:9 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us.