Chronological

Christ teaches by a similitude that God is debtor to no man, and how he is always calling people to his work. He teaches his disciples to be lowly, and gives two blind men their sight.

20 For the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. ² And he agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, and sent them into his vineyard. ³ And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place, ⁴ and said to them, Go ye also into my vineyard, and whatever is right, I will give you. And they went their way.

⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. ⁶ And he went out about the eleventh hour and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all the day? ⁷ They said to him, Because no one has hired us. He said to them, Go ye also into my vineyard, and whatever is right, that you will receive.

⁸ When evening was come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the labourers and give them their wages, beginning at the last till you come to the first.

⁹ And those who were hired about the eleventh hour came and received every man a denarius. ¹⁰ Then came the first, supposing that they would receive more, but they likewise received every man a denarius. ¹¹ And when they had received it, they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

¹³ He answered to one of them, saying, Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take that which is your due, and go your way. I want to give to the last one as much as to you. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do as I please with what belongs to me? Is your eye evil because I am good?

¹⁶ In like manner the last may be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.

¹⁷ And Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and took the twelve disciples apart along the way and said to them, ¹⁸ 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, ¹⁹ and will deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked, to be scourged, and to be crucified; and the third day he will rise again.

²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee’s children came to him with her sons, doing reverence to him and desiring a certain thing of him. ²¹ He said to her, What would you like? She answered him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on your right hand and the other on your left hand, in your kingdom.

²² Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able to drink of the cup that I must drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I must be baptized with?

They answered to him, That we are.

²³ And he said to them, You shall drink of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptism that I will be baptized with. But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give, but is for those for whom it is prepared by my Father.

²⁴ And when the ten heard about this, they were indignant at the two brethren. ²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, You know that the lords of the Gentiles have dominion over them, and those who are great exercise power over them. ²⁶ It shall not be this way among you, but whosoever would be great among you, let him minister to you, ²⁷ and whoever would be chief, let him be your servant – ²⁸ even as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life for the redemption of many.

²⁹ And as they departed from Jericho, crowds of people followed Jesus. ³⁰ And two blind men sitting by the wayside, when they heard Jesus pass by, cried out, saying, Lord Son of David, have mercy on us! ³¹ And the people admonished them to hold their peace. But they cried out all the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord Son of David!

³² Then Jesus stood still and called them, and said, What do you want me to do for you? ³³ They said to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened! ³⁴ Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight. And they followed him.

He rides into Jerusalem, drives the merchants out of the temple, curses the fig tree, and rebukes the Pharisees with the similitudes of the two sons and of the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them.

21 When they drew near to Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, ² saying to them, Go into the town that lies in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and her colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. ³ And if anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord has need of them, and straightaway he will let them go.

⁴ All this was done to fulfil that which was spoken by the prophet, saying: ⁵ Tell ye the daughter of Zion: Behold, your king comes to you, humble and sitting upon a donkey and a colt, the foal of a donkey bred to the yoke.

⁶ The disciples went and did as Jesus told them, ⁷ and brought the donkey and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set him thereon. ⁸ And many of the people spread their garments in the road. Others cut down branches from the trees and strew them in the road. ⁹ Moreover, the people who went ahead, and also those who came after, cried out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!

¹⁰ And when he came to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? ¹¹ And the people said, This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, a town of Galilee.

¹² And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all the people who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of the people who sold doves, ¹³ and said to them, It is written: My house shall be called the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

¹⁴ And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

¹⁵ When the chief priests and scribes saw the marvels that he did, and the children calling out in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were indignant ¹⁶ and said to him, Do you hear what they say? Jesus said to them, Yea, have you never read: From the mouth of babes and sucklings, you have ordained praise?

¹⁷ And he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and had his lodging there.

¹⁸ In the morning, as he returned into the city again, he hungered, ¹⁹ and saw a fig tree by the road, and went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only, and said to it, Let fruit never grow on you from this time forward. And at once the fig tree withered away. ²⁰ And when his disciples saw that, they marvelled, saying, How has the fig tree withered away so suddenly? ²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what I have done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, Take yourself away and cast yourself into the sea, it will be done. ²² And whatever you ask in prayer (if you believe), you will receive it.

²³ And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?

²⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask of you a certain question, which, if you answer me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The baptism of John: whence was it? from heaven, or of men?

Then they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say to us, why did you not then believe him? ²⁶ But if we say it was of men, then we fear the people. (For everyone held John to be a prophet.)

²⁷ And they answered Jesus and said, We don’t know.

And he likewise said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁸ What do you say to this: A certain man had two sons, and went to the elder and said, Son, go and work today in my vineyard. ²⁹ He answered and said, I will not, but afterward he repented and went. ³⁰ Then the father went to the second son and said likewise. And he answered and said, I will, Sir. Yet he did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father?

And they said to him, The first.

Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that the publicans and the harlots shall come into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him. And yet you, though you saw it, were still not moved with repentance, so that you might afterward have believed him.

³³ Hear another similitude: There was a certain householder who planted a vineyard. He hedged it round about and made a winepress in it, and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. ³⁴ And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive the fruits of it. ³⁵ And the husbandmen caught his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other servants, more than at the first, and they treated them likewise. ³⁷ Then last of all he sent to them his own son, saying, They will respect my son. ³⁸ But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us take his inheritance for ourselves. ³⁹ And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyard, and slew him. ⁴⁰ Now when the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do with those husbandmen?

⁴¹ They said to him, He will miserably destroy those evil persons, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen who will render to him the fruit in their seasons.

⁴² Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures: The stone which the builders refused, the same is set in the principal part of the corner; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? ⁴³ Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and will be given to the Gentiles, who will bring forth the fruits of it. ⁴⁴ And whosoever falls on this stone, he shall be broken; but whomever it falls upon, it will grind him to powder.

⁴⁵ When the chief priests and Pharisees heard these similitudes, they perceived that he was speaking of them. ⁴⁶ And they went about to lay hands on him, but they feared the people because they took him as a prophet.