8. “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
9. When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
10. When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
11. When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
12. ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
13. “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
14. Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
15. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’
16. “So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.”
17. As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and told them what was going to happen to him.
18. “Listen,” he said, “we’re going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be betrayed to the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. They will sentence him to die.
19. Then they will hand him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified. But on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”
20. Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor.
21. “What is your request?” he asked.She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.”