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OET-RV MAT Chapter 20

OETMAT 20 ©

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20because the heavenly kingdom is like a landowner who came out in the morning to hire labourers to work in his vineyard. 2They all agreed on the rate for the day, and then he sent them off to work in his vineyard. 3Then around 9am he noticed some others standing idle in the marketplace, 4and he told them, ‘You can go and work in the vineyard, and I’ll pay you all a fair wage.’ 5So they went off. Then he came out around midday, and again at 3pm, and did the same. 6When he came out around 5pm, and there were still people just standing around, he asked them, ‘Why have you been idly standing here all day?’ 7Because no one has hired us,’ they said. So he also sent them off to work in the vineyard.

8In the evening, the landowner instructed his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, starting with the last to start work, and ending with the first.’[ref] 9The ones who’d started late afternoon each received the day’s wage that the first workers had been promised, 10so those first ones expected they’d receive more, but they all got the same day’s wage. 11When they got theirs, the first workers started grumbling about the landowner, 12and complained, ‘These last ones only worked an hour, and yet you paid them the same as us who worked the entire day right through the scorching heat!’ 13‘Buddy,’ he said to one of them, ‘I’m not cheating you. Didn’t you agree to work for me for the usual daily wage? 14Take what we agreed on and go, but I wanted to give these last workers the same amount. 15Or aren’t I permitted to do what I want with my own money? Or do you look at me maliciously just because I’m generous?’

16So that’s how the last will be first, and the first will be last.[ref]

20:17 Yeshua tells a third time about his death

(Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34)

17As Yeshua started on the walk to Yerushalem, he took the twelve apprentices aside by themselves on the way, and told them, 18Listen, we’re going to Yerushalem, and humanity’s child will be handed over to the chief priests and the religious teachers, and they’ll condemn him to death 19and hand him over to the non-Jews to be mocked and flogged and executed on a post, and then on the third day he’ll come back to life.

20:20 Requesting the top seats

(Mark 10:35-45)

20Then Zebedee’s wife approached Yeshua with her two sons, Yacob and Yohan. She knelt in front of him, obviously wanting to ask for something.

21What is it that you’re wanting?” Yeshua asked.

“Promise that my two sons will be able to sit beside you in your royal court,” she said, “one on the right and one on the left.”

22But Yeshua answered, “You people don’t realise what you’re asking. Do you think you’ll be able to bear the suffering that I’ll have to suffer?

“Yes,” they replied, “we can.”

23Well, you will indeed share my suffering,” Yeshua responded. “But on the other hand, sitting on my right and my left is not my decision to make—it’s for the people my father’s prepared those places for.

24Now the other ten, who’d heard all this, resented the two brothers, 25but Yeshua called them over and said, “You apprentices know that the rulers of other nations practice total control over their people, as do other powerful people.[ref] 26But among you, it shouldn’t be like that. Instead, anyone who wants to become important should be your servant,[ref] 27and anyone who wants to be first should be your slave, 28in the same way that humanity’s child didn’t come to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as the cost of freeing many people.

20:29 Yeshua heals two blind men

(Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43)

29When they all left Yeriho (Jericho), a large crowd followed after him. 30Then, look, two blind men heard that Yeshua was passing by, so they yelled out, “Show mercy to us, master, David’s descendant!”

31The crowd warned them to be quiet, but they just yelled out even louder, “Master, David’s descendant, show mercy to us!”

32At that point, Yeshua stopped and called them over and asked, “What is it that you’re wanting me to do for you?

33Master,” they said, “open our eyes so we can see.”

34Yeshua felt compassionate towards them, and touched their eyes with his fingers, and then straight away they were able to see, and they followed after him.


20:8: Lev 19:13; Deu 24:15.

20:16: Mat 19:30; Mrk 10:31; Luk 13:30.

20:25-26: Luk 22:25-26.

20:26-27: Mat 23:11; Mrk 9:35; Luk 22:26.

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OETMAT 20 ©

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