English Standard Version

Matthew 20:12-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

13. But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

14. Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you.

15. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

16. So the last will be first, and the first last.”

17. And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

18. “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death

19. and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

20. Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.