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20 because the heavenly kingdom is like a landowner who came out in the morning to hire labourers to work in his vineyard. 2 They all agreed on the rate for the day, and then he sent them off to work in his vineyard. 3 Then around 9am he noticed some others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and he told them, ‘You can go and work in the vineyard, and I’ll pay you all a fair wage.’ 5 So they went off. Then he came out around midday, and again at 3pm, and did the same. 6 When 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?’ 7 ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they said. So he also sent them off to work in the vineyard.
8 “In 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] 9 The ones who’d started late afternoon each received the day’s wage that the first workers had been promised, 10 so those first ones expected they’d receive more, but they all got the same day’s wage. 11 When they got theirs, the first workers started grumbling about the landowner, 12 and 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? 14 Take what we agreed on and go, but I wanted to give these last workers the same amount. 15 Or 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?’
16 “So that’s how the last will be first, and the first will be last.”[ref]
17 As Yeshua started on the walk to Yerushalem, he took the twelve apprentices aside by themselves on the way, and told them, 18 “Listen, 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 19 and 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 Then Zebedee’s wife approached Yeshua with her two sons, Yacob and Yohan. She knelt in front of him, obviously wanting to ask for something.
21 “What 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.”
22 But 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.”
23 “Well, 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.”
24 Now the other ten, who’d heard all this, resented the two brothers, 25 but 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] 26 But among you, it shouldn’t be like that. Instead, anyone who wants to become important should be your servant,[ref] 27 and anyone who wants to be first should be your slave, 28 in 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.”
29 When they all left Yeriho (Jericho), a large crowd followed after him. 30 Then, look, two blind men heard that Yeshua was passing by, so they yelled out, “Show mercy to us, master, David’s descendant!”
31 The crowd warned them to be quiet, but they just yelled out even louder, “Master, David’s descendant, show mercy to us!”
32 At that point, Yeshua stopped and called them over and asked, “What is it that you’re wanting me to do for you?”
33 “Master,” they said, “open our eyes so we can see.”
34 Yeshua 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.
Much like the difficulties of discerning the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land (see here), the task of reconciling the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’ final journey to Jerusalem into one coherent itinerary has proven very challenging for Bible scholars. As with many other events during Jesus’ ministry, the accounts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (often referred to as the Synoptic Gospels) present a noticeably similar account of Jesus’ final travels, while John’s Gospel presents an itinerary that is markedly different from the others. In general, the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus as making a single journey to Jerusalem, beginning in Capernaum (Luke 9:51), passing through Perea (Matthew 19:1-2; Mark 10:1) and Jericho (Matthew 20:29-34; Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-19:10), and ending at Bethany and Bethphage, where he enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-44). John, on the other hand, mentions several trips to Jerusalem by Jesus (John 2:13-17; 5:1-15; 7:1-13; 10:22-23), followed by a trip to Perea across the Jordan River (John 10:40-42), a return to Bethany where he raises Lazarus from the dead (John 11), a withdrawal to the village of Ephraim for a few months (John 11:54), and a return trip to Bethany, where he then enters Jerusalem riding on a donkey (John 12:1-19). The differences between the Synoptics’ and John’s accounts are noteworthy, but they are not irreconcilable. The Synoptics, after noting that Jesus began his trip at Capernaum, likely condensed their accounts (as occurs elsewhere in the Gospels) to omit Jesus’ initial arrival in Jerusalem and appearance at the Festival of Dedication, thus picking up with Jesus in Perea (stage 2 of John’s itinerary). Then all the Gospels recount Jesus’ trip (back) to Bethany and Jerusalem, passing through Jericho along the way. Likewise, the Synoptics must have simply omitted the few months Jesus spent in Ephraim to escape the Jewish leaders (stage 4 of John’s itinerary) and rejoined John’s account where Jesus is preparing to enter Jerusalem on a donkey.
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