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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 20 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Matthew 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/19.htm" title="Matthew 19">◄</a> Matthew 20 <a href="../matthew/21.htm" title="Matthew 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Workers in the Vineyard</h3><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_1"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.1" class="v40_20_1">1</span>“The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. </span><span class="v40_20_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.2" class="v40_20_2">2</span>He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. </span><span class="v40_20_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.3" class="v40_20_3">3</span>He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing, </span><span class="v40_20_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.4" class="v40_20_4">4</span>so he told them, ‘You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.’ </span><span class="v40_20_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.5" class="v40_20_5">5</span>So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing. </span><span class="v40_20_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.6" class="v40_20_6">6</span>It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. ‘Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?’ he asked them. </span><span class="v40_20_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.7" class="v40_20_7">7</span>‘No one hired us,’ they answered. ‘Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,’ he told them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.8" class="v40_20_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.20.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “When evening came, the owner told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.’ </span><span class="v40_20_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.9" class="v40_20_9">9</span>The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each. </span><span class="v40_20_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.10" class="v40_20_10">10</span>So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each. </span><span class="v40_20_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.11" class="v40_20_11">11</span>They took their money and started grumbling against the employer. </span><span class="v40_20_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.12" class="v40_20_12">12</span>‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun—yet you paid them the same as you paid us!’ </span><span class="v40_20_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.13" class="v40_20_13">13</span>‘Listen, friend,’ the owner answered one of them, ‘I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin. </span><span class="v40_20_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.14" class="v40_20_14">14</span>Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you. </span><span class="v40_20_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.15" class="v40_20_15">15</span>Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.16" class="v40_20_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.20.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And Jesus concluded, “So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Speaks a Third Time about His Death</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 10:32-34">Mark 10.32-34</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:31-34">Luke 18.31-34</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.17" class="v40_20_17">17</span>As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and spoke to them privately, as they walked along. </span><span class="v40_20_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.18" class="v40_20_18">18</span>“Listen,” he told them, “we are going up to Jerusalem, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. They will condemn him to death </span><span class="v40_20_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.19" class="v40_20_19">19</span>and then hand him over to the Gentiles, who will make fun of him, whip him, and crucify him; but three days later he will be raised to life.”</span></p><h3 class="s">A Mother's Request</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 10:35-45">Mark 10.35-45</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.20" class="v40_20_20">20</span>Then the wife of Zebedee came to Jesus with her two sons, bowed before him, and asked him for a favor.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.21" class="v40_20_21">21</span>“What do you want?” Jesus asked her.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_21">She answered, “Promise me that these two sons of mine will sit at your right and your left when you are King.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.22" class="v40_20_22">22</span>“You don't know what you are asking for,” Jesus answered the sons. “Can you drink the cup of suffering that I am about to drink?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_22">“We can,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.23" class="v40_20_23">23</span>“You will indeed drink from my cup,” Jesus told them, “but I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. These places belong to those for whom my Father has prepared them.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.24" class="v40_20_24">24</span>When the other ten disciples heard about this, they became angry with the two brothers. </span><span class="v40_20_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.25" class="v40_20_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.20.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So Jesus called them all together and said, “You know that the rulers of the heathen have power over them, and the leaders have complete authority. </span><span class="v40_20_26"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.26" class="v40_20_26">26</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.20.26!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest; </span><span class="v40_20_27"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.27" class="v40_20_27">27</span>and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of the others— </span><span class="v40_20_28"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.28" class="v40_20_28">28</span>like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Heals Two Blind Men</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 10:46-52">Mark 10.46-52</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 18:35-43">Luke 18.35-43</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_29"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.29" class="v40_20_29">29</span>As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd was following. </span><span class="v40_20_30"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.30" class="v40_20_30">30</span>Two blind men who were sitting by the road heard that Jesus was passing by, so they began to shout, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_31"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.31" class="v40_20_31">31</span>The crowd scolded them and told them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Son of David! Have mercy on us, sir!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_32"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.32" class="v40_20_32">32</span>Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_33"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.33" class="v40_20_33">33</span>“Sir,” they answered, “we want you to give us our sight!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_20_34"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.20.34" class="v40_20_34">34</span>Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes; at once they were able to see, and they followed him.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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