Matthew 20:2–21
2 “When he had agreed with the laborers for a 1denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 “And he went out about the 1third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
4 and to those he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ And so they went.
5 “Again he went out about the 1sixth and the ninth hour, and did 2the same thing.
6 “And about the 1eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he * said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’
7 “They * said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He * said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
8 “When aevening came, the 1owner of the vineyard * said to his bforeman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’
9 “When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a 1denarius.
10 “When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; 1but each of them also received a denarius.
11 “When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,
12 saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the ascorching heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered and said to one of them, ‘aFriend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14 ‘Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
15 ‘Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your aeye 1envious because I am 2generous?’
16 “So athe last shall be first, and the first last.”
17 aAs Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,
18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man awill be 1delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,
19 and awill hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on bthe third day He will be raised up.”
20 aThen the mother of bthe sons of Zebedee came to 1Jesus with her sons, cbowing down and making a request of Him.
21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?” She * said to Him, “Command that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine amay sit one on Your right and one on Your left.”