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"When evening came, the master said to his steward, "`Call the men and pay them their wages. Begin with the last set and finish with the first.'
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"When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received a shilling apiece;
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and when the first came, they expected to get more, but they also each got the shilling.
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So when they had received it, they grumbled against the employer, saying,
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"`These who came last have done only one hour's work, and you have put them on a level with us who have worked the whole day and have borne the scorching heat.'
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"`My friend,' he answered to one of them, `I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a shilling?
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Take your money and go. I choose to give this last comer just as much as I give you.
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Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
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"So the last shall be first, and the first last."
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Jesus was now going up to Jerusalem, and He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,
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"We are going up to Jerusalem, and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the High Priests and Scribes. They will condemn Him to death,