12. They said, ‘These last workers have worked only one hour. Yet, you’ve treated us all the same, even though we worked hard all day under a blazing sun.’
13. “The owner said to one of them, ‘Friend, I’m not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me on a day’s wages?
14. Take your money and go! I want to give this last worker as much as I gave you.
15. Can’t I do what I want with my own money? Or do you resent my generosity towards others?’
16. “In this way the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
17. When Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he took the twelve apostles aside and said to them privately,
18. “We’re going to Jerusalem. There the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the experts in Moses’ Teachings. They will condemn him to death
19. and hand him over to foreigners. They will make fun of him, whip him, and crucify him. But on the third day he will be brought back to life.”