1"The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner. He went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard."
2"He agreed with the workers to pay them a penny a day, and he sent them into his vineyard."
3"About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace with nothing to do."
4"He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.' So they went."
5"Again he went out about the sixth hour and about the ninth hour, and did the same."
6"About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing with nothing to do. He said to them, 'Why have you stood here all day doing nothing?'"
7"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and you will receive whatever is right.'"
8"When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages. Begin with the last ones and go on to the first.'"
9"The ones who were hired about the eleventh hour came, and each of them received a penny."
10"When the first ones came, they thought they would receive more. But each of them also received a penny."
11"When they had received it, they complained against the master of the house."
12"They said, 'These last ones have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us. We have carried the load and the heat of the day.'"
13"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a penny?"
14"'Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you."
15"'Am I not allowed to do what I want with what is my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?'"
16"So the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them,
18"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death."
19"They will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock him, to whip him, and to crucify him. And on the third day he will rise again."
20Then the mother of Zebedee's children came to him with her sons. She bowed down before him and wanted to ask him for something.
21He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit in your kingdom, one at your right hand and the other at your left."
22But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am going to drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
23He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with. But to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give. It will be given to those for whom my Father has prepared it."
24When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers.
25But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men use their authority over them."
26"It shall not be so among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant."
27"And whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave."
28"In the same way the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
29As they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed him.
30Look, two blind men were sitting by the roadside. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David."
31The crowd told them off and said they should be quiet. But they cried out all the more, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David."
32Jesus stood still and called them, and said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
33They said to him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."
34So Jesus felt compassion for them and touched their eyes. At once their eyes received sight, and they followed him.