PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD. FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MAN THAT IS AN HOUSEHOLDER WHICH WENT OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING TO HIRE LABORERS INTO HIS VINEYARD. This parable is often called the parable of the hours, since the length of the working-day is an important item in the... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD AGREED WITH THE LABORERS FOR A PENNY A DAY, HE SENT THEM INTO HIS VINEYARD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hiring:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT OUT ABOUT THE THIRD HOUR, AND SAW OTHERS STANDING IDLE IN THE MARKET-PLACE,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID UNTO THEM, GO YE ALSO INTO THE VINEYARD, AND WHATSOEVER IS RIGHT I WILL GIVE YOU. AND THEY WENT THEIR WAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAIN HE WENT OUT ABOUT THE SIXTH AND NINTH HOUR AND DID LIKEWISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR HE WENT OUT, AND FOUND OTHERS STANDING IDLE, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, WHY STAND YE HERE ALL THE DAY IDLE?... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SAY UNTO HIM, BECAUSE NO MAN HATH HIRED US. HE SAITH UNTO THEM, GO YE ALSO INTO THE VINEYARD; AND WHATSOEVER IS RIGHT, THAT SHALL YE RECEIVE. Some laborers he managed to find at early dawn, and he could hire them so that they were able to go to work at once, the Jewish working-day lasting from... [ Continue Reading ]
SO WHEN EVEN WAS COME, THE LORD OF THE VINEYARD SAITH UNTO HIS STEWARD, CALL THE LABORERS, AND GIVE THEM THEIR HIRE, BEGINNING FROM THE LAST UNTO THE FIRST.... [ Continue Reading ]
The settlement at evening:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY CAME THAT WERE HIRED ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR, THEY RECEIVED EVERY MAN A PENNY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE FIRST CAME, THEY SUPPOSED THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED MORE; AND THEY LIKEWISE RECEIVED EVERY MAN A PENNY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD RECEIVED IT, THEY MURMURED AGAINST THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, THESE LAST HAVE WROUGHT BUT ONE HOUR, AND THOU HAST MADE THEM EQUAL UNTO US, WHICH HAVE BORNE THE BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY. Six o'clock came, and the master gave the foreman, or steward, one of whose duties was the paying of the laborers, the command to call the workmen and pay them their... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE ANSWERED ONE OF THEM AND SAID, FRIEND, I DO THEE NO WRONG; DIDST NOT THOU AGREE WITH ME FOR A PENNY?... [ Continue Reading ]
The master's answer:... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE THAT THINE IS, AND GO THY WAY; I WILL GIVE UNTO THIS LAST EVEN AS UNTO THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS IT NOT LAWFUL FOR ME TO DO WHAT I WILL WITH MINE OWN? IS THINE EYE EVIL BECAUSE I AM GOOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST, AND THE FIRST LAST; FOR MANY BE CALLED, BUT FEW CHOSEN. In choosing one man out of the whole company of murmurers, the master gave all the greater force to his application. Friend, or companion, comrade, fellow, he calls him, my good fellow, my dear neighbor, combining re... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, GOING UP TO JERUSALEM, TOOK THE TWELVE DISCIPLES APART IN THE WAY AND SAID UNTO THEM,... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST AGAIN FORETELLS HIS PASSION. Matthew 20:17... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM, AND THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE BETRAYED UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND UNTO THE SCRIBES; AND THEY SHALL CONDEMN HIM TO DEATH,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL DELIVER HIM TO THE GENTILES TO MOCK, AND TO SCOURGE, AND TO CRUCIFY HIM; AND THE THIRD DAY HE SHALL RISE AGAIN. This is Christ's third prediction concerning His Passion. The first time He had stated only in a general way that He would suffer many things, chapter 16:21. In the second prophe... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME TO HIM THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN WITH HER SONS, WORSHIPING HIM, AND DESIRING A CERTAIN THING OF HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REQUESTS OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto Him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on Thy right hand, and the other on the left, in Thy kingdom. The two sons of Zebedee, James and John, were among the first disciples of Jesus, Matthew 4:21. In the early days of their discipleshi... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, YE KNOW NOT WHAT YE ASK. ARE YE ABLE TO DRINK OF THE CUP THAT I SHALL DRINK OF, AND TO BE BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM THAT I AM BAPTIZED WITH? THEY SAY UNTO HIM, WE ARE ABLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, YE SHALL DRINK INDEED OF MY CUP, AND BE BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM THAT I AM BAPTIZED WITH; BUT TO SIT ON MY RIGHT HAND AND ON MY LEFT IS NOT MINE TO GIVE, BUT IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO THEM FOR WHOM IT IS PREPARED OF MY FATHER. Incidents of this nature must have tried the patience... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE TEN HEARD IT, THEY WERE MOVED WITH INDIGNATION AGAINST THE TWO BRETHREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
A lesson in humility:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS CALLED THEM UNTO HIM AND SAID, YE KNOW THAT THE PRINCES OF THE GENTILES EXERCISE DOMINION OVER THEM, AND THEY THAT ARE GREAT EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG YOU; BUT WHOSOEVER WILL BE GREAT AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR MINISTER;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHOSOEVER WILL BE CHIEF AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SERVANT:... [ Continue Reading ]
even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. The disciples were still very human. Since their hearts, therefore, were filled with the same ambitions, with the same jealousy, as those of the two sons of Zebedee, they became violently... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY DEPARTED FROM JERICHO, A GREAT MULTITUDE FOLLOWED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEALING OF TWO BLIND MEN. Matthew 20:29 The cry:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, TWO BLIND MEN SITTING BY THE WAYSIDE, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT JESUS PASSED BY, CRIED OUT, SAYING, HAVE MERCY ON US, O LORD, THOU SON OF DAVID.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MULTITUDE REBUKED THEM, BECAUSE THEY SHOULD HOLD THEIR PEACE; BUT THEY CRIED THE MORE, SAYING, HAVE MERCY ON US, O LORD, THOU SON OF DAVID. Jesus did not go to Jerusalem by the direct route, but by way of Jericho, thus gaining opportunity for further works of saving grace and for this double... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS STOOD STILL, AND CALLED THEM, AND SAID, WHAT WILL YE THAT I SHALL DO UNTO YOU?... [ Continue Reading ]
The healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SAY UNTO HIM, LORD, THAT OUR EYES MAY BE OPENED.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO JESUS HAD COMPASSION ON THEM, AND TOUCHED THEIR EYES; AND IMMEDIATELY THEIR EYES RECEIVED SIGHT, AND THEY FOLLOWED HIM. The fact that Jesus took an interest in the blind men at once changed the attitude of the multitude, and many now offered assistance. The cry of faith touched the Lord's heart,... [ Continue Reading ]