Matthew - Chapter 20

1 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man, the master of a house, who went out in the morning, to hire labourers for his vineyard. 2 And he contracted the labours for a daily wage*, and sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out during the third hour, and saw others standing idle at the marketplace; 4 and he said to them: 'You also go into my vineyard, and I will give to you what is right;' 5 and they left. And again he went out during the sixth and during ninth hours, and did the same. 6 And around the eleventh hour he went out and found others who were standing and were idle; and he said to them: 'Why are you standing here all day and idle?' 7 They said to him: 'Because no man has hired us.' He said to them: 'Go also into the vineyard and you will receive what is right.' 8 And when it became evening, the master of the vineyard said to his steward: 'Call the labourers, and give them their wages; and begin with the last, and proceed to the first.' 9 And those of the eleventh hour came, each receiving a day's wage. 10 And when the first came, they were in hopes of receiving more; but each of them also received a day's wage. 11 And after they were paid, they murmured against the master of the house, 12 and said: 'These last ones have laboured for only one hour, and you made them equal with us who have bore the burden of the day and its heat.' 13 But he answered, and said to one of them: 'My friend, I did not wrong you. Was it not for a day's wage that you agreed with me in the contract? 14 Take yours and go, for I desire to give to these last ones, as to you. 15 Or is it not lawful for me to do that which I desire with what belongs to me; or is your eye evil, because I am good?' 16 Thus the last will be first, and the first will be last; for many are those who are called, but there are only a few who are chosen."

17 And Yeshua was going to go up to Yerushalayim, and he took his twelve talmidim alone on [[the side of]] the road, and said to them: 18 "Behold! We are going up to Yerushalayim; and the Son of Man will be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. 19 And they will deliver him over to the gentiles: and they will mock him, and will beat him, and will crucify him; and the third day, he will rise."

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zavddai came to him, she and her sons; and she worshipped him, and was asking something from him. 21 And he said to her: "What do you desire?" And she said to him: "Say, that these my two sons will sit, the one on your right hand and the other on your left, in your kingdom." 22 And Yeshua answered and said: "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink of the cup, of which I am to drink? Or be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with? Or enter the place that I enter?*" They said to him: "We are able."

23 He said to them: "You will drink my cup, and will be baptised with the baptism that I am baptised with, but that you should sit at my right hand and at my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my Father." 24 And when the ten heard this they became angry with those two brothers. 25 And Yeshua called them, and said to them: "You know that the princes of the gentiles are their masters, and their nobles exercise authority over them. 26 Do not permit it to be this way among you. But whoever among you desires to be great, let him be a minister to you; 27 and he who desires to be first among you, let him be a servant to you; 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for the sake of many."

29 And when Yeshua went out from Yericho, a large crowd was following after him. 30 And behold! Two blind men were sitting on the side of the road. And when they heard that Yeshua was passing, they cried out, and were saying: "Have mercy on us, Mari Bar David!*" 31 But the crowds were rebuking them so that they would be quiet. But they raised their voice even higher, and said: "Maran, have mercy on us, Bar David."

32 And Yeshua stopped, and called them, and said: "What do you desire for me to do?" 33 They said to him: "Maran, that our eyes may be opened." 34 And he showed compassion for them, and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes were opened, and they followed after him.