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MAT 19:30–20:16 ©

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The last will be first

19:30 The last will be first

30[ref]But many who are first will end up last, and the last will be first 20because the kingdom of the heavens 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 day’s wage at the end.’ 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.

8[ref]In the evening, the landowner instructed his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, going from the last to start until the first.’ 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 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 is your eye evil just because I am generous?’

16[ref]So the last will be first like that, and the first will be last.


19:30: Mat 20:16; Luk 13:30.

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

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

MAT 19:30–20:16 ©

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