New Living Translation NLT
Wycliffe WYC
1 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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The kingdom of heavens is like to an husbandman, that went out first by the morrow [that went out early, or by the morrow], to hire workmen into his vineyard.
2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
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And when the covenant was made with the workmen, of a penny for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.
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And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market.
4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
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And he said to them, Go ye also into mine vineyard [Go ye also into my vinery], and that that shall be rightful, I shall give to you. And they went forth.
5 So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
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Again he went out about the sixth hour, and the ninth, and did in like manner.
6 “At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
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But about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and said to them, What stand ye idle here all day [What stand ye here idle all day]?
7 “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
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They say to him, For no man hath hired us. He saith to them, Go ye also into my vineyard.
8 “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
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And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his procurator, Call the workmen, and yield to them their hire, and begin thou at the last till to the first [beginning at the last till to the first].
9 When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
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And so when they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, also they took every each of them a penny. [+Therefore when they came, that had come about the eleventh hour, also they took even-pence, that is, every man a penny.]
10 When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
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But the first came, and deemed, that they should take more, but they took each one by themselves a penny; [+Truly and the first coming deemed, that they were worthy to take more, truly and they took each one by himself a penny/but also they took even-pence.]
11 When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
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and in the taking they grumbled against the husbandman, [And they taking grutched against the husbandman,]
12 ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
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and said [saying], These last wrought one hour, and thou hast made them even to us, that have borne the charge of the day, and [the] heat?
13 “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
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And he answered to one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee none wrong [Friend, I do thee no wrong]; whether thou hast not accorded with me for a penny?
14 Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
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Take thou that that is thine, and go; for I will give to this last man, as to thee. [+Take that that is thine, and go; forsooth I will give also to this the last, as and to thee.]
15 Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’
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Whether it is not leaveful to me to do that that I will? Whether thine eye is wicked, for I am good?
16 “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
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So the last shall be the first, and the first the last; for many be called, but few be chosen [for many be called, but few chosen].
17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him.
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And Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and took his twelve disciples in private, and said to them, [And Jesus, ascending up to Jerusalem, took his twelve disciples in private, and said to them,]
18 “Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die.
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Lo! we go up to Jerusalem, and man's Son shall be betaken to princes of priests, and to scribes; and they shall condemn him to death.
19 Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”
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And they shall betake him to heathen men, for to be scorned, and scourged, and crucified; and the third day he shall rise again to life. [And they shall betake him to heathen men, to be scorned, and scourged, and crucified; and the third day he shall rise again.]
20 Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor.
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Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, honouring, and asking something of him. [Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came nigh to him with her sons, worshipping, and asking something of him.]
21 “What is your request?” he asked. She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”
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And he said to her, What wilt thou? She saith to him, Say that these two my sons sit [Say that these my two sons sit], one at thy right half, and one at thy left half, in thy kingdom.
22 But Jesus answered by saying to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering I am about to drink?” “Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!”
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[Forsooth] Jesus answered, and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Be ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of [Be ye able to drink the cup that I am to drink]? They say to him, We be able.
23 Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup. But I have no right to say who will sit on my right or my left. My Father has prepared those places for the ones he has chosen.”
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He saith to them, Ye shall drink my cup; but to sit at my right half or [at my] left half, is not mine to give to you; but to whom it is made ready of my Father.
24 When the ten other disciples heard what James and John had asked, they were indignant.
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And the ten hearing, had indignation of the two brethren.
25 But Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.
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But Jesus called them to him, and said, Ye know, that [the] princes of heathen men be lords of them, and they that be [the] greater, use power on them [and they that be more, haunt power on them].
26 But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,
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It shall not be so among you; but whoever will be made greater among you [but whoever will be made more among you], be he your minister;
27 and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave.
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and whoever among you will be the first [and whoever among you will be first], he shall be your servant.
28 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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As man's Son came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life redemption for many.
29 As Jesus and the disciples left the town of Jericho, a large crowd followed behind.
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And when they went out of Jericho, much people followed him. [And they going out of Jericho, many companies followed him.]
30 Two blind men were sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was coming that way, they began shouting, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
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And lo! two blind men sat beside the way, and heard that Jesus passed; and they cried, and said, Lord, the son of David, have mercy on us. [And lo! two blind men sitting beside the way, heard that Jesus passed; and they cried, saying, Lord, the son of David, have mercy on us.]
31 “Be quiet!” the crowd yelled at them. But they only shouted louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
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And the people blamed them, that they should be still; and they cried the more, and said, Lord, the son of David, have mercy on us. [Forsooth the company blamed them, that they should be still; and they cried more, saying, Lord, the son of David, have mercy on us.]
32 When Jesus heard them, he stopped and called, “What do you want me to do for you?”
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And Jesus stood, and called them, and said, What will ye, that I do to you?
33 “Lord,” they said, “we want to see!”
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They say to him, Lord, that our eyes be opened.
34 Jesus felt sorry for them and touched their eyes. Instantly they could see! Then they followed him.
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And Jesus had mercy on them, and touched their eyes; and at once [and anon] they saw, and followed him.