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Matthew 20:12-25 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

12. saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

13. But he answering said to one of them, My friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?

14. Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:

15. is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

16. Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

17. And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with him apart in the way, and said to them,

18. Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;

19. and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.

20. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.

21. And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak the word that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.

22. And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.

23. And he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.

24. And the ten, having heard of it, were indignant about the two brothers.

25. But Jesus having called them to him, said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them.

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