The King gives the parable of the workers in the vineyard
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📚✭“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. 2 📚And when he had agreed with the labourers for a silver coin✭ for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 📚✭And he went out about nine in the morning, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 📚✭and said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.’ And they went.5 📚“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon, and did the same. 6 📚✭And about five in the afternoon he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day long?’ 7 📚✭They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will get what is right.’
8 📚✭“So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and give them their wages, beginning with the last group up to the first.’
9 📚✭“And when those who were hired about five o’clock came, each of them received a silver coin. 10 ✭But when the first group came, they supposed that they would receive more, but each of them too received a silver coin. 11 📚✭And when they received it, they complained against the landowner, 12 📚saying, ‘This last group worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.’
13 📚✭“But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am not doing you any wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a silver coin? 14 📚Take yours and go your way. I choose to give to this last group the same as I gave you. 15 📚✭Is it not lawful for me to do what I choose with what I have? Is your eye evil,✭ because I am good?’
16 📚✭“So the last will be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few chosen”.
The King again speaks of His death and resurrection
17 📚✭And going up to Jerusalem Jesus took the twelve disciples aside on the way and said to them, 18 📚“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they will condemn him to death, 19 📚✭and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and be beaten with a whip and to be crucified. And the third day he will rise again”.
The King teaches about true greatness, and tells why He came to earth
20 📚✭Then the mother of Zebedee's children came with her sons to him, worshipping him, and asking him for something. 21 📚And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Grant that these, my two sons, may sit in your kingdom, the one at your right hand, and the other at the left”.
22 📚✭But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am going to drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We are able”.
23 📚✭And he said to them, “Indeed you will drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized. But to sit at my right hand and at my left, is not mine to give, but it will be given to those for whom it is prepared by my Father”.
24 📚✭And when the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. 25 📚✭But Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 📚But it shall not be so among you. But whoever wants to be great among you, must be your servant, 27 📚and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave, 28 📚just as the Son of man came to serve,✭ not to be served, and to give his life a ransom✭ for many”.
The King heals blind men in Jericho
29 📚And as they were leaving Jericho✭, a great crowd followed him. 30 📚✭And, suddenly, two blind men sitting by the wayside, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, son of David”.
31 📚And the crowd rebuked them so that they would keep quiet, but they cried out all the more, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, son of David”.
32 📚✭And Jesus stood still and called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”
33 📚They said to him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened”.
34 📚So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.