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20:1  "The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
20:2  After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3  When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing in the marketplace without work.
20:4  He told them, 'You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.'
20:5  So off they went. He went out again about noon and about three o'clock and did the same thing.
20:6  About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, 'Why are you standing here all day long without work?'
20:7  They told him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He told them, 'You go into the vineyard as well.'
20:8  "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, 'Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'
20:9  Those who were hired at five o'clock came, and each received a denarius.
20:10  "When the first came, they thought they would receive more, but each received a denarius as well.
20:11  When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner,
20:12  These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'
20:13  "But he told one of them, 'Friend, I'm not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn't you?
20:14  Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man as much as I gave you.
20:15  I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'
20:16  "In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen."
20:17  When Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and told them as they were walking along,
20:18  "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death.
20:19  Then they will hand him over to unbelievers to be mocked, whipped, and crucified, but on the third day he will be raised."
20:20  Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor.
20:21  He asked her, "What do you want?" She told him, "Promise that in your kingdom these two sons of mine will sit on your right and on your left."
20:22  Jesus replied, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" They told him, "We can."
20:23  He told them, "You will indeed drink from my cup. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father."
20:24  When the ten heard this, they became furious with the two brothers.
20:25  But Jesus called the disciples and said, "You know that the rulers of the unbelievers lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them.
20:26  That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
20:27  and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.
20:28  That's the way it is with the Son of Man. He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."
20:29  As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Jesus.
20:30  When two blind men who were sitting by the roadside heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
20:31  When the crowd told them harshly to be silent, they shouted even louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
20:32  Jesus stopped and called them, saying, "What do you want me to do for you?"
20:33  They told him, "Lord, we want to be able to see!"
20:34  Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and at once they could see again. So they followed him.