Matthew 20

Anderson^{(i) 1} For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ² And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the market, idle; ⁴ and he said to them: Go you also into my vine yard, and whatever is right I will give you. ⁵ And they went. Again he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and did in like manner. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle? ⁷ They said to him: No man has hired us. He said to them: Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive. ⁸ When the evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers, and, beginning with the last, pay them their hire even to the first. ⁹ And when those came who had been hired about the eleventh hour, they received each one a denarius. ¹⁰ But when those came who had been hired first, they thought that they would receive more; and they received each one a denarius. ¹¹ And when they received it, they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² saying: These last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day, and the heat. ¹³ But he answered and said to one of them: Friend, I do you no in justice; did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go; I will give to this last even as to you. ¹⁵ Is it not allowed me to do what I will with my own? Or, is your eye envious, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen. ¹⁷ And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside on his journey, and said to them: ¹⁸ Be hold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, ¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to deride, and to scourge, and to crucify: and on the third day he shall rise again. ²⁰ Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing down, and asking something of him. ²¹ He said to her: What do you wish? She said to him: Command that these two sons of mine may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom. ²² But Jesus answered and said: You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed? They said to him: We are able. ²³ And he said to them: You shall drink my cup, and be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it has been prepared by my Father. ²⁴ And when the ten heard it, their anger was aroused against the two brothers. ²⁵ But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the rulers of the Gentiles act as lords over them, and their great men have authority over them. ²⁶ It shall not be so among you. But whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. ²⁷ And whoever will be first among you, let him be your servant; ²⁸ even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. ²⁹ And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude fol lowed him. ³⁰ And behold, two blind men, sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying: Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David. ³¹ And the multitude charged them to be silent. But they cried the more, saying: Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David. ³² And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said: What do you wish me to do for you? ³³ They said to him: Lord, that our eyes may be opened. ³⁴ Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes; and their eyes immediately received sight, and they followed him.