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Matthew 20:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, "

Matthew 20:17

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15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

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Mark 10:32

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"From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

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John 6:67

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"Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”"

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Matthew 20:1

"“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard."

Matthew 20:2

"When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard."

Matthew 20:3

"He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace."

Matthew 20:4

"He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way."

Matthew 20:5

"Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise."

Matthew 20:6

"About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’"

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