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Matthew 20:13-20 New Living Translation (NLT)

13. “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?

14. Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.

15. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’

16. “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”

17. As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him.

18. “Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die.

19. Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

20. Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor.

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