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1.    For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who  went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
 
2.    And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day,  he sent them into his vineyard.
 
3.    And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others  standing in the market-place idle;
 
4.    and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and  whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their  way.
 
5.    Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he  did likewise.
 
6.    But about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found  others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the  day idle?
 
7.    They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to  them, Go also ye into the vineyard and whatsoever may be just  ye shall receive.
 
8.    But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard  says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their  wages, beginning from the last even to the first.
 
9.    And when they who came to work about the eleventh hour  came, they received each a denarius.
 
10.    And when the first came, they supposed that they would  receive more, and they received also themselves each a  denarius.
 
11.    And on receiving it they murmured against the master of  the house,
 
12.    saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast  made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and  the heat.
 
13.    But he answering said to one of them, My friend, I do  not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?
 
14.    Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to  this last even as to thee:
 
15.    is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own  affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?
 
16.    Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many  are called ones, but few chosen ones.
 
17.    And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve  disciples with him apart in the way, and said to them,
 
18.    Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be  delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will  condemn him to death;
 
19.    and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to  scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.
 
20.    Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with  her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.
 
21.    And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak  the word that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right  hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.
 
22.    And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye  drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We  are able.
 
23.    And he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but  to sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give,  but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.
 
24.    And the ten, having heard of it, were indignant about  the two brothers.
 
25.    But Jesus having called them to him, said, Ye know that  the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the  great exercise authority over them.
 
26.    It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be  great among you, shall be your servant;
 
27.    and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your  bondman;
 
28.    as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to  serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
 
29.    And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed  him.
 
30.    And lo, two blind men, sitting by the wayside, having  heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out saying, Have mercy  on us, Lord, Son of David.
 
31.    But the crowd rebuked them, that they might be silent. But  they cried out the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of  David.
 
32.    And Jesus, having stopped, called them and said, What will  ye that I shall do to you?
 
33.    They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
 
34.    And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and  immediately their eyes had sight restored to them, and they  followed him.