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Matthew 20:9-18 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

9. “And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a silver piece.

10. “And when the first came, they thought they would receive more. But they too received each a silver piece.

11. “And when they received it, they grumbled against the householder,

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

13. “But he answering, said to one of them, ‘Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a silver piece?

14. ‘Take yours and go. But I wish to give to this last man as also to you.

15. ‘Is it not right for me to do what I wish with my own? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

16. “Thus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”

17. And יהושע, going up to Yerushalayim, took the twelve taught ones aside on the way and said to them,

18. “See, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Aḏam shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they shall condemn Him to death,

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