Matthew 20

1“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.Cross-references: Song 8:11 · Isa 5:1 · Jer 25:3 · Matt 3:2 · Matt 9:37 · Matt 13:24 · +15 more

2When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 5:27 · 1Sam 2:18 · 1Sam 2:26 · 1Sam 3:1 · 1Sam 3:21 · +12 more

3He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.Cross-references: Prov 19:15 · Ezek 16:49 · Matt 11:16 · Matt 20:6 · Mark 15:25 · Acts 2:15 · +3 more

4He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.Cross-references: Matt 9:9 · Matt 21:23 · Luke 19:7 · Rom 6:16 · 1Cor 6:11 · Col 4:1 · +4 more

5Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Josh 24:2 · 2Chr 33:12 · Matt 27:45 · Mark 15:33 · Luke 23:44 · +7 more

6About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’Cross-references: Prov 19:15 · Eccl 9:10 · Ezek 16:49 · Luke 23:40 · John 9:4 · Acts 17:21 · +1 more

7“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’Cross-references: Eccl 9:10 · Matt 22:9 · Luke 14:21 · John 9:4 · Acts 4:16 · Acts 17:30 · +7 more

8“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 39:4 · Gen 43:19 · Lev 19:13 · Deut 24:15 · Matt 13:39 · +13 more

9“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.Cross-references: Matt 20:2 · Matt 20:6 · Luke 23:40 · Rom 4:3 · Rom 5:20 · Eph 1:6 · +2 more

10When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,Cross-references: Luke 5:30 · Luke 15:2 · Luke 15:28 · Luke 19:7 · Acts 11:2 · Acts 13:45 · +3 more

12saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’Cross-references: Isa 58:2 · Jonah 4:8 · Zech 7:3 · Mal 1:13 · Mal 3:14 · Luke 12:55 · +13 more

13“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Job 34:8 · Job 34:17 · Job 35:2 · Job 40:8 · Matt 22:12 · +3 more

14Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.Cross-references: 2Ki 10:16 · 2Ki 10:30 · Ezek 29:18 · Matt 6:2 · Matt 6:6 · Matt 6:16 · +5 more

15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’Cross-references: Ex 33:19 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 15:9 · Deut 28:54 · 1Chr 28:4 · Prov 23:6 · +16 more

16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”Cross-references: Matt 7:13 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 19:30 · Matt 21:31 · Matt 22:14 · Mark 10:31 · +12 more

17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,Cross-references: Gen 18:17 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 16:13 · Mark 10:32 · Luke 18:31 · John 12:12 · +2 more

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,Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 69:1 · Isa 53:1 · Dan 9:24 · Matt 16:21 · +8 more

19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”Cross-references: Ps 22:7 · Ps 35:16 · Isa 26:19 · Isa 53:3 · Hos 6:2 · Matt 12:40 · +18 more

20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.Cross-references: Matt 2:11 · Matt 4:21 · Matt 8:2 · Matt 14:33 · Matt 15:25 · Matt 27:56 · +3 more

21He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”Cross-references: 1Ki 2:19 · 1Ki 3:5 · Esth 5:3 · Ps 45:9 · Ps 110:1 · Jer 45:5 · +17 more

22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”Cross-references: Ps 75:3 · Prov 16:18 · Isa 51:17 · Isa 51:22 · Jer 25:15 · Jer 49:12 · +11 more

23He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”Cross-references: Matt 25:34 · Mark 10:40 · Acts 12:2 · Rom 8:17 · 1Cor 2:9 · 2Cor 1:7 · +4 more

24When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.Cross-references: Prov 13:10 · Mark 10:41 · Luke 22:23 · 1Cor 13:4 · Phil 2:3 · James 3:14 · +2 more

25But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Cross-references: Dan 2:12 · Dan 2:37 · Dan 3:2 · Dan 3:15 · Dan 3:19 · Dan 5:19 · +5 more

26It shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.Cross-references: Ezek 24:13 · Matt 23:8 · Matt 25:44 · Matt 27:55 · Mark 9:35 · Mark 10:43 · +15 more

27Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,Cross-references: Matt 18:4 · Mark 9:33 · Luke 22:26 · Acts 20:34 · Rom 1:14 · 1Cor 9:19 · +4 more

28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”Cross-references: Job 33:24 · Ps 49:7 · Isa 53:5 · Isa 53:8 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:24 · +26 more

29As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.Cross-references: Matt 9:27 · Mark 10:46 · Luke 18:35

30Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”Cross-references: Ps 146:8 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 35:5 · Isa 42:16 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 59:10 · +13 more

31The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”Cross-references: Gen 32:25 · Matt 7:7 · Matt 15:23 · Matt 19:13 · Luke 11:8 · Luke 18:1 · +3 more

32Jesus stood still and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”Cross-references: Ezek 36:37 · Matt 20:21 · Acts 10:29 · Phil 4:6

33They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”Cross-references: Ps 119:18 · Eph 1:17

34Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.Cross-references: Ps 119:67 · Ps 119:71 · Ps 145:8 · Matt 8:15 · Matt 9:29 · Matt 9:36 · +12 more