Matthew Chapter 20
Matthew is the 40th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Matthew 20:1 to Matthew 20:9.
Browse to all the verses of Matthew by clicking the page number below the chapter list.
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Matthew 20:1
"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:2
"When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3
"And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
Matthew 20:4
and to those he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went.
Matthew 20:5
"Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.
Matthew 20:6
"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'
Matthew 20:7
"They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'
Matthew 20:8
"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.'
Matthew 20:9
"When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
Matthew 20:10
"When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
Matthew 20:11
"When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,
Matthew 20:12
saying, 'These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.'
Matthew 20:13
"But he answered and said to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
Matthew 20:14
'Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
Matthew 20:15
'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'
Matthew 20:16
"So the last shall be first, and the first last."
Matthew 20:17
As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,
Matthew 20:18
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,
Matthew 20:19
and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up."
Matthew 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.
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