Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the
last even to the first.

20:9. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour,
they received every man a penny.

20:10. But when the first also came, they thought that they should
receive more: And they also received every man a penny.

20:11. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

20:12. Saying: These last have worked but one hour and thou hast made
them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

20:13. But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong:
didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

20:14. Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last
even as to thee.

20:15. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil,
because I am good?

What I will... Viz., with my own, and in matters that depend on my own
bounty.

20:16. So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are
called but few chosen.

20:17. And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart
and said to them:

20:18. Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be
betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn
him to death.

20:19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged
and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.

20:20. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons,
adoring and asking something of him.

20:21. Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these
my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy
left, in thy kingdom.

20:22. And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you
drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.

20:23. He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit
on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for
whom it is prepared by my Father.

20:24. And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the
two brethren.

20:25. But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes
of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater,
exercise power upon them.

20:26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among
you, let him be your minister.

20:27. And he that will be first among you shall be your servant.

20:28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be minister