World Messianic Bible British Edition

Matthew 20:8-23 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

8. When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

9. “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

10. When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

11. When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

12. saying, ‘These last have spent 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 answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

14. Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

15. Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or 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 are chosen.”

17. As Yeshua was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

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

19. and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

20. Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

21. He said to her, “What do you want?”She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

22. But Yeshua answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?”They said to him, “We are able.”

23. He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”