Matthew 20:11-21

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 ¹scorching heat of the day.'

13 "But he answered and said to one of them, '²Friend, 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 ³eye envious because I am generous?'

16 "So ⁴the last shall be first, and the first last."

Death, Resurrection Foretold

17 ⁵As 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 ⁶will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

19 and ⁷will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on ⁸the third day He will be raised up."

Preferment Asked

20 ⁹Then the mother of ¹⁰the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, ¹¹bowing 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 ¹²may sit one on Your right and one on Your left."

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