Matthew 20:14

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

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 "`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."