Matthew 20:11-21

11 So when they had received it, they grumbled against the employer, saying,

12 "`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.'

13 "`My friend,' he answered to one of them, `I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a shilling?

14 Take your money and go. I choose to give this last comer just as much as I give you.

15 Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

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

17 Jesus was now going up to Jerusalem, and He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,

18 "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,

19 and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zabdi came to Him with her sons, and knelt before Him to make a request of Him.

21 "What is it you desire?" He asked. "Command," she replied, "that these my two sons may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your Kingdom."