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Matthew 20:14
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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.”  

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17 aNow Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,  
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Matthew 20:14

Take up (aron). First aorist active imperative of airw. Pick up, as if he had saucily refused to take it from the table or had contemptuously thrown the denarius on the ground. If the first had been paid first and sent away, there would probably have been no murmuring, but "the murmuring is needed to bring out the lesson" (Plummer). The dhnariuv was the common wage of a day labourer at that time.

What I will (o qelw). This is the point of the parable, the will of the householder.

With mine own (en toiv emoiv). In the sphere of my own affairs. There is in the Koin‚ an extension of the instrumental use of en.


 
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