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Matthew - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,
- and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
- `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,
- and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;
- and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.
- And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?
- they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.
- `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.
- And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.
- `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,
- and having received `it', they were murmuring against the householder, saying,
- that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.
- `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?
- take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;
- is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
- So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'
- And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples by themselves in the way, and said to them,
- `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes,
- and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'
- Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,
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