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Matthew 20:11-23 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. And upon receiving it, they murmured against the father of the family,

12. saying, 'These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.'

13. But responding to one of them, he said: 'Friend, I caused you no injury. Did you not agree with me to one denarius?

14. Take what is yours and go. But it is my will to give to this last, just as to you.

15. And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?'

16. So then, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

17. And Jesus, ascending to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside in private and said to them:

18. "Behold, we are ascending to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be handed over to the leaders of the priests and to the scribes. And they shall condemn him to death.

19. And they shall hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified. And on the third day, he shall rise again."

20. Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him, with her sons, adoring him, and petitioning something from him.

21. And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Declare that these, my two sons, may sit, one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom."

22. But Jesus, responding, said: "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink from the chalice, from which I will drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

23. He said to them: "From my chalice, indeed, you shall drink. But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to give to you, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

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