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Matthew 20 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Workers
1 THE Kingdom of Heaven is like to a man that is an householder which went forth early in the morning to hire workmen into his vineyard.📜💬📚
2 And having made covenant with the workmen for a peny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.📜💬📚
3 And going forth about the third hour, he saw other standing in the market place idle,📜💬📚
4 and he said to them: Go you also into the vineyard, and that which shall be just, I will give you.📜💬📚
5 And they went their way. And again he went forth about the sixth & the ninth hour: and did likewise.📜💬📚
6 But about the eleventh hour he went forth and found other standing, & he saith to them: What stand you here all the day idle?📜💬📚
7 They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into the vineyard.📜💬📚
8 And when evening was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith to his bailiff, Call the workmen, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.📜💬📚
9 Therefore when they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every one a peny.📜💬📚
10 But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every one a peny.📜💬📚
11 And receiving it they murmured against the good-man of the house.📜💬📚
12 Saying: These last have continued one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day & the heats.📜💬📚
13 But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not covenant with me for a peny?📜💬📚
14 Take that is thine, and go: I will also give to this last even as to thee also.📜💬📚
15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do that I will? Is thine eye naught, because I am good?📜💬📚
16 So shall the last be first, and the first, last. For many be called, but few elect.📜💬📚
Third Prediction of the Passion
17 And JESUS going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve Disciples secretly, and said to them:📜💬📚
18 Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief Priests and to the Scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,📜💬📚
19 and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, and scourged, and crucified, and the third day he shall rise again.📜💬📚
A Mother's Request
20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and desiring some thing of him.📜💬📚
21 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: Say that these my two sons may sit, one at thy right hand, & one at thy left hand in thy Kingdom.📜💬📚
22 And JESUS answering, said: You know not what you desire. Can you drink of the cup that I shall drink of? They say to him: We can.📜💬📚
23 He saith to them: My cup indeed you shall drink of: but to sit at my right hand and left, is not mine to give to you: but to whom it is prepared of my Father.📜💬📚
24 And the ten hearing it, were displeased at the two brethren.📜💬📚
25 And JESUS calleth them unto him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles overrule them: and they that are the greater, exercise power against them.📜💬📚
26 It shall not be so among you, but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:📜💬📚
27 And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.📜💬📚
28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.📜💬📚
Blind Men by the Road
29 And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.📜💬📚
30 And behold two blind men sitting by the way side, heard that JESUS passed by, and they cried out saying: Lord, have mercy upon us, Son of David.📜💬📚
31 And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. But they cried out the more, saying: Lord, have mercy upon us, Son of David.📜💬📚
32 And JESUS stood, and called them, and said: What will ye that I do to you?📜💬📚
33 They say to him: Lord, that our eyes may be opened.📜💬📚
34 And JESUS having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And immediately they saw, and followed him.📜💬📚
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