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Matthew 20:4-21 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

4. and to those he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went.

5. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.

6. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'

7. They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

8. "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.'

9. When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.

10. When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.

11. When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,

12. saying, 'These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.'

13. But he answered and said to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

14. Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.

15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'

16. So the last shall be first, and the first last."

17. As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,

18. "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

19. and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up."

20. Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

21. And He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to Him, "Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit one on Your right and one on Your left."

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