2. When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3. “Then he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4. and said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
5. Again he went out about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did likewise.
6. “About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
7. “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’“He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’
8. “So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’
9. “When they who were hired about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
10. But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, but each of them likewise received a denarius.
11. When they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,
12. saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.’
13. “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14. Take what is yours and go your way. I will give to this last one even as I give to you.
15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? 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 Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,
18. “Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes. And they will condemn Him to death
19. and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him, but on the third day He will rise.”
20. Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons. And kneeling before Him, she asked for a certain thing.