Matthew 20:14

14 Take [what is] yours and go! But I want to give to this last [person] [the same] as [I gave] to you also.

Matthew 20:14 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 20:14

Take that thine is
By agreement, and go thy way; out of my sight, give me no more trouble on this head; which looks like a dismissal from his service, and after privileges; and was true of many among the Jews, who were only nominal professors, and from whom the Gospel and ordinances of it were taken:

I will give unto this last
man that was called, and sent into the vineyard,

even as unto thee;
the same outward privileges, besides special grace, and eternal glory, which it looks as if the other had not.

Matthew 20:14 In-Context

12 saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

13 But he answered one of them [and] said, 'Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius?

14 Take [what is] yours and go! But I want to give to this last [person] [the same] as [I gave] to you also.

15 Is it not permitted for me to do whatever I want with [what is] mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

16 Thus the last will be first and the first last."

Footnotes

• [a] The words "[I gave]" are an implied repetition from the verb earlier in the verse