10. The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same,
11. they began complaining to the owner of the vineyard.
12. They 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!”
13. The owner answered one of them, “Friend, I didn't cheat you. I paid you exactly what we agreed on.
14. Take your money now and go! What business is it of yours if I want to pay them the same that I paid you?
15. Don'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?”
16. Jesus then said, “So it is. Everyone who is now first will be last, and everyone who is last will be first.”
17. As Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took his twelve disciples aside and told them in private:
18. We 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,
19. and then they will hand him over to foreigners 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.
20. The mother of James and John came to Jesus with her two sons. She knelt down and started begging him to do something for her.
21. Jesus 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.”