Matthew 20
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1After this Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a certain individual, who was master in his house, who arose early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard”.
2“He hired them for one dinar a day and sent them into his vineyard”.
3“He went out at the third hour of the day and saw others standing idle in the market place”.
4“He said to them: ‘Go, also you, into my vineyard and that which is suitable I will give to you’.
5“So they went. Then he came out again at noon and also at the ninth hour and did the same”.
6“At the eleventh hour he went out also and found others standing and he said to them: ‘Why do you stand idle all day?’
7“They answered him: ‘No man has hired us’. So he said to them: ‘Go, also, you into my vineyard’.
8“It came to pass at evening, the master of the vineyard said to the officer over the laborers: ‘Call them that I might give to them their wages’. He began with the last and finished with the first”.
9“The last received one dinar”.
10“So the first thought they would receive more, but he gave only a dinar to each of them”.
11“Then the first murmured against the master of the vineyard
12“saying: ‘These last worked one hour and you have made them like us who have worked all day and in the heat’.
13“He answered one of them and said to him: ‘My friend, I have done you no injustice. Did I not hire you for one dinar?’
14‘Take it and go. If I wish to give this last like you’
15‘may I not do according to my desire? Is there evil in your eyes when I am good?’
16“So the last shall be first and the first last. Many are called but few are chosen”.
17Yeshua [God is Salvation] drew near to Yerushalayim [abode of peace] and took his twelve disciples and secretly said to them:
18“Behold we are going up to Yerushalayim [abode of peace] and the Son of Man will be delivered over unto the chief priests and Torah-teachers (Scribes) and they will condemn him to death”.
19“Also they will deliver him to the Goyim [Gentiles] to mock and scourge and crucify him, but on the third day he will arise”.
20Then came the wife of Zavdai [Yah has bestowed] with her sons, bowing down and making a request from him.
21He said to her: “What do you wish?” She said: ‘That you command these my two sons to sit the one on your right and the other on your left in your Kingdom’.
22Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered them: “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to endure the suffering and death that I am going to endure?”. They said: ‘We are able’.
23Then he said to them: “Drink my cup, but that you should sit on my left or my right is not for me to grant to you but to the one who is prepared before by my Father”
24The ten heard and it was a matter of anger, in their eyes, in regard to the two brothers.
25Yeshua [God is Salvation] brought them near to him and said to them: “Know that the princes of the Goyim [Gentiles] have dominion over them and their great ones seek to subdue them”.
26“It will not be so among you, because he who wishes to be great among you will serve you”.
27“He who among you who wishes to be first will be your slave”,
28“just as the Son of Man did not come that they might serve him, but that he might serve and give himself as a ransom for many”.
29They entered into Jericho and a crowd followed him.
30Behold two blind men came out beside the road. They heard the noise of the multitude and asked what this might be. It was said to them: ‘The Prophet Yeshua [God is Salvation] from Natsrat is coming’. Then they cried out saying: ‘Son of David [Beloved], have mercy on us’.
31But the crowd rebuked them saying: “Be silent”; they nevertheless were crying out saying: ‘Adon [Lord - Kurios of the Earth], Son of David [Beloved], have mercy on us’.
32So Yeshua [God is Salvation] ‘stopped, called them and said: “What do you want me to do for you?’”
33They said: ‘Adon [Lord - Kurios of the Earth], that our eyes might be opened’.
34Yeshua [God is Salvation] had pity on them, touched their eyes and said to them: “Your faith has healed you”. Immediately they saw, praised The Mighty One, and followed him. Then all the people praised The Mighty One, because of this.
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Matthew 20
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Workers in a vineyard
1As Jesus was telling what the kingdom of heaven would be like, he said:
Early one morning a man went out to hire some workers for his vineyard. 2After he had agreed to pay them the usual amount for a day's work, he sent them off to his vineyard.
3About nine that morning, the man saw some other people standing in the market with nothing to do. 4He said he would pay them what was fair, if they would work in his vineyard. 5So they went.
At midday and again about three in the afternoon he returned to the market. And each time he made the same agreement with others who were lazing around with nothing to do.
6Finally, about five in the afternoon the man went back and found some others standing there. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”
7“Because no one has hired us,” they answered. Then he told them to go and work in his vineyard.
8That evening the owner of the vineyard told the man in charge of the workers to call them in and give them their money. He also told the man to begin with the ones who were hired last.#Lv 19.13; Dt 24.15. 9When the workers arrived, the ones who had been hired at five in the afternoon were given a full day's pay.
10The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same, 11they began complaining to the owner of the vineyard. 12They said, “The ones who were hired last worked for only one hour. But you paid them the same that you did us. And we worked in the hot sun all day long!”
13The owner answered one of them, “Friend, I didn't cheat you. I paid you exactly what we agreed on. 14Take your money now and go! What business is it of yours if I want to pay them the same that I paid you? 15Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”
16Jesus then said, “So it is. Everyone who is now first will be last, and everyone who is last will be first.”#Mt 19.30; Mk 10.31; Lk 13.30.
Jesus again tells about his death
(Mark 10.32-34; Luke 18.31-34)
17As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took his twelve disciples aside and told them in private:
18We are now on our way to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses. They will sentence him to death, 19and then they will hand him over to foreigners#20.19 foreigners: The Romans, who ruled Judea at this time. who will make fun of him. They will beat him and nail him to a cross. But on the third day he will rise from death.
A mother's request
(Mark 10.35-45)
20The mother of James and John#20.20 mother of James and John: The Greek text has “mother of the sons of Zebedee”. See 26.37. came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her. 21Jesus asked her what she wanted, and she said, “When you come into your kingdom, please let one of my sons sit at your right side and the other at your left.”#20.21 right side…left: The most powerful people in a kingdom sat at the right and left side of the king.
22Jesus answered, “Not one of you knows what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the cup#20.22 drink from the cup: In the Scriptures a cup is sometimes used as a symbol of suffering. To “drink from the cup” is to suffer. that I must soon drink from?”
James and John said, “Yes, we are!”
23Jesus replied, “You certainly will drink from my cup! But it isn't for me to say who will sit at my right side and at my left. That is for my Father to say.”
24When the ten other disciples heard this, they were angry with the two brothers. 25But Jesus called the disciples together and said:#Lk 22.25,26.
You know that foreign rulers like to order their people around. And their great leaders have full power over everyone they rule. 26But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others.#Mt 23.11; Mk 9.35; Lk 22.26. 27And if you want to be first, you must be the slave of the rest. 28The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue#20.28 rescue: The Greek word often, though not always, means the payment of a price to free a slave or a prisoner. many people.
Jesus heals two blind men
(Mark 10.46-52; Luke 18.35-43)
29Jesus was followed by a large crowd as he and his disciples were leaving Jericho. 30Two blind men were sitting beside the road. And when they heard that Jesus was coming their way, they shouted, “Lord and Son of David,#20.30 Son of David: See the note at 9.27. have pity on us!”
31The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, “Lord and Son of David, have pity on us!”
32When Jesus heard them, he stopped and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
33They answered, “Lord, we want to see!”
34Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Straight away they could see, and they became his followers.
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