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Parable of the Vineyard Workers
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
The Parable of the Vineyard Workers
For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
“At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.
And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;
So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.
So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.
“At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
“They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’
“The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
“The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].
“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.
When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.
When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.
When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.
“He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?
Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:
Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’
is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good?
“So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.
Jesus Again Predicts His Death
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him.
Third Prediction of Death, Resurrection
And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with [him] apart in the way, and said to them,
And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with [him] apart in the way, and said to them,
Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;
and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.
Jesus Teaches about Serving Others
Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor.
A Mother's Request
Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.
Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.
“What is your request?” he asked.
She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”
She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”
And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak [the word] that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.
But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?”
“Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”
“Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”
And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which *I* am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.
Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. My Father has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.”
[And] he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on [my] left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.
When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant.
And the ten, having heard [of it], were indignant about the two brothers.
But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.
But Jesus having called them to [him], said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them.
But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,
It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your servant;
and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave.
and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Jesus Heals Two Blind Men
As Jesus and the disciples left the town of Jericho, a large crowd followed behind.
Two Blind Men Receive Sight
And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed him.
And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed him.
Two blind men were sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was coming that way, they began shouting, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
And lo, two blind men, sitting by the wayside, having heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.
“Be quiet!” the crowd yelled at them.
But they only shouted louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
But they only shouted louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
But the crowd rebuked them, that they might be silent. But they cried out the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.
When Jesus heard them, he stopped and called, “What do you want me to do for you?”
And Jesus, having stopped, called them and said, What will ye that I shall do to you?