¹For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a master of a house, who went out in the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.

²And when he had agreed with the workmen for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³And when he had gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

⁴and to those he said, "You yourselves go also into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you."

⁵And they went. Again, when he had gone out about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise.

⁶About the eleventh hour, when he had gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, "Why have you stood here idle all the day?"

⁷They say to him, "Because no one has hired us." He says to them, "You yourselves go also into the vineyard, and what is right you will receive."

⁸When evening had arrived, the master of the vineyard says to his foreman, "Call the workmen and pay them the wages, having begun from the last until the first."

⁹And when those hired about the eleventh hour had come, they received each a denarius.

¹⁰And when the first had come, they thought that they will receive more; but they also received each a denarius themselves.

¹¹Now when they had received it, they were grumbling against the master of the house,

¹²saying, "These last worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat."

¹³And answering to one of them he said, "Friend, I do not wrong you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

¹⁴Take what is yours and go. I desire to give to this last as also to you.

¹⁵Or is it not lawful for me to do what I want with that which is mine? Or is your eye envious because I myself am generous?"

¹⁶Thus the last will be first and the first last; for many are called, few now chosen.

¹⁷And Jesus, now soon to be going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on their own, and on the way he said to them,

¹⁸"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

¹⁹and they will deliver him to the nations, to mock and to flog and to crucify; and on the third day he will rise again."

²⁰Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from him.

²¹And he said to her, "What do you desire?" She says to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right hand and one on your left hand, in your kingdom."

²²Now Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask for. Are you able to drink the cup which I myself am about to drink, and the immersion which I myself am immersed to be immersed?" They say to him, "We are able."

²³And he says to them, "Indeed my cup you will drink, and the immersion which I myself am immersed you will be immersed; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

²⁴And having heard this, the ten were indignant about the two brothers.

²⁵And Jesus, having called them to him, said, "You know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them.

²⁶Now it will not be thus among you; but whoever among you wishes to become great, he will be your servant,

²⁷and whoever among you wishes to be first, he will be your slave;

²⁸even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."

²⁹And when they were going out from Jericho, a great crowd followed him.

³⁰And behold, two blind men sitting beside the road, having heard that Jesus is passing by, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Jesus, Son of David!"

³¹And the crowd rebuked them, that they may be silent. But all the more they cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

³²And having stopped, Jesus called them and said, "What do you desire I may do unto you?"

³³They say to him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."

³⁴Then Jesus, having been moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediately the eyes received their sight, and they followed him.