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11 And when they had received it, they1 complained against the landowner,  
12 saying, ‘These last men have 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 and said, ‘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 wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
15 aIs it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or bis your eye evil because I am good?’  
16 aSo the last will be first, and the first last. bFor many are called, but few chosen.”  

Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection

17 aNow Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,  
18 a“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,  
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Matthew 20:13

Friend, I do thee no wrong - I have fully complied with the contract. We had an agreement: I have paid all that I promised. If I choose to give a penny to another man if he labors little or not at all if I should choose to give all my property away to others, it would not affect this contract with you: it is fully met; and with my own with that on which you have no further claim I may do as I please. So, if Christians are just, and pay their lawful debts, and injure no one, the world has no right to complain if they give the rest of their property to the poor, or devote it to send the gospel to the pagan, or to release the prisoner or the captive. It is their own. They have a right to do with it as they please. They are answerable, not to people, but to God, and infidels, and worldly people, and cold professors in the church have no right to interfere.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Matthew 20:13:

Matthew 20:17-19
Matthew 20:29-34

 

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