The Good News According to Mattityahu, 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
denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. {20:3} He went out
about the third hour, 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 sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. {20:6}
About the eleventh hour 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 steward, '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 Yerushalayim, he took the twelve
[1>]talmidim[<1] aside, and on the way he said to them, {20:18}
"Behold, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Man will be
delivered to the chief [2>]Kohanim[<2] and [3>]Sofrim[<3], and they
will condemn him to death, {20:19} and will hand him over to the Goyim
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 Zavdai 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 Goyim 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 shall be 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 Yericho, 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] {20:17} disciples
[2] {20:18} priests
[3] {20:18} scribes
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