14Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.
15aIs it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or bis your eye evil because I am good?’
16aSo 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
17aNow Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,
18a“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,
19aand deliver Him to the Gentiles to bmock and to cscourge and to dcrucify. And the third day He will erise again.”
Greatness Is Serving
20aThen the mother of bZebedee’s sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.
The last first and the first last (oi esxatoi prwtoi kai oi prwtoi esxatoi). The adjectives change places as compared with Matthew 19:30. The point is the same, though this order suits the parable better. After all one's work does not rest wholly on the amount of time spent on it. "Even so hath Rabbi Bun bar Chija in twenty-eight years wrought more than many studious scholars in a hundred years" (Jer. Berak. ii. 5c).
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