14 Take what’s yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business?[a] Are you jealous[b] because I’m generous?’[c](A)

16 “So the last will be first, and the first last.”[d](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:15 Lit with what is mine
  2. Matthew 20:15 Lit Is your eye evil; an idiom for jealousy or stinginess
  3. Matthew 20:15 Lit good
  4. Matthew 20:16 Other mss add For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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