Matthew 20:13-16

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¹³“He replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I’m doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me on a denarius?^(A) ¹⁴Take what’s yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you. ¹⁵Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous^[a] because I’m generous?’^[b]^(B)

¹⁶“So the last will be first, and the first last.”^[c]^(C)

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Footnotes

20:15 Lit Is your eye evil; an idiom for jealousy or stinginess
20:15 Lit good
20:16 Other mss add “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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