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The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 20
{20:1} "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master
of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for
his vineyard. {20:2} When he had agreed with the laborers for a
[1>]denarius[<1] a day, he sent them into his vineyard. {20:3} He went
out about the [2>]third hour,[<2] and saw others standing idle in the
marketplace. {20:4} To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard,
and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way. {20:5}
Again he went out about the [3>]sixth and the ninth hour,[<3] and did
likewise. {20:6} About the [4>]eleventh hour[<4] he went out, and
found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here
all day idle?'
{20:7} "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.'
"He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will
receive whatever is right.' {20:8} When evening had come, the lord of
the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them
their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
{20:9} "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came,
they each received a denarius. {20:10} When the first came, they
supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received
a denarius. {20:11} When they received it, they murmured against the
master of the household, {20:12} saying, 'These last have spent one
hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of
the day and the scorching heat!'
{20:13} "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no
wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius? {20:14} Take that
which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last
just as much as to you. {20:15} Isn't it lawful for me to do what I
want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
{20:16} So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are
called, but few are chosen."
{20:17} As Yeshua was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve
disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, {20:18} "Behold, we
are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the
chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, {20:19}
and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to
crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."
{20:20} Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her
sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. {20:21} He said to
her, "What do you want?"
She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on
your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
{20:22} But Yeshua answered, "You don't know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be
immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?"
They said to him, "We are able."
{20:23} He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be
immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with, but to sit on my
right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom
it has been prepared by my Father."
{20:24} When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two
brothers.
{20:25} But Yeshua summoned them, and said, "You know that the
rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise
authority over them. {20:26} It shall not be so among you, but whoever
desires to become great among you [5>]shall be[<5] your servant.
{20:27} Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your
bondservant, {20:28} even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but
to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
{20:29} As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed
him. {20:30} Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they
heard that Yeshua was passing by, cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us,
you son of David!" {20:31} The multitude rebuked them, telling them
that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, "Lord, have
mercy on us, you son of David!"
{20:32} Yeshua stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you
want me to do for you?"
{20:33} They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."
{20:34} Yeshua, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and
immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
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Footnotes:
[1] {20:2} A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman
aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.
[2] {20:3} Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour
would be about 9:00 AM.
[3] {20:5} noon and 3:00 P. M.
[4] {20:6} 5:00 PM
[5] {20:26} TR reads "let him be" instead of "shall be"
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