1 Want die koninkryk van die hemele is soos 'n huisheer wat vroeg in die môre uitgegaan het om arbeiders vir sy wingerd te huur.
2 En nadat hy met die arbeiders ooreengekom het vir 'n penning op 'n dag, stuur hy hulle in sy wingerd.
3 En omtrent die derde uur gaan hy uit en sien ander ledig op die mark staan.
4 En hy sê vir hulle: Gaan julle ook in die wingerd, en wat reg is, sal ek aan julle gee. En hulle het gegaan.
5 Weer het hy omtrent die sesde en die negende uur uitgegaan en net dieselfde gedoen.
6 En omtrent die elfde uur gaan hy uit en vind ander ledig staan en sê vir hulle: Wat staan julle hier die hele dag ledig?
7 Hulle antwoord hom: Omdat niemand ons gehuur het nie. Hy sê vir hulle: Gaan julle ook in die wingerd, en wat reg is, sal julle ontvang.
8 En toe dit aand geword het, sê die heer van die wingerd vir sy opsigter: Roep die arbeiders en betaal hulle hul loon; en begin van die laastes af tot by die eerstes.
9 En die wat omtrent die elfde uur begin het, het gekom en elkeen 'n penning ontvang.
10 Die eerstes kom toe en dink dat hulle meer sal ontvang, en hulle het ook elkeen 'n penning ontvang.
11 En toe hulle dit ontvang, murmureer hulle by die huisheer
12 en sê: Hierdie laastes het een uur gewerk, en u het hulle gelykop behandel met ons wat die las van die dag en die hitte gedra het.
13 Maar hy antwoord en sê vir een van hulle: Vriend, ek doen jou geen onreg aan nie. Het jy nie met my ooreengekom vir 'n penning nie?
14 Neem dan wat joue is, en gaan heen. Ek wil aan hierdie laaste een gee net soos aan jou.
15 Of staan dit my nie vry om met my eie goed te maak wat ek wil nie? Of is jou oog verkeerd, omdat ek goed is?
16 So sal die wat laaste is, eerste wees, en die wat eerste is, laaste; want baie is geroep, maar min uitverkies.
17 En toe Jesus opgaan na Jerusalem, het Hy die twaalf dissipels op die pad alleen geneem en vir hulle gesê:
18 Kyk, ons gaan op na Jerusalem, en die Seun van die mens sal oorgelewer word aan die owerpriesters en skrifgeleerdes; en hulle sal Hom tot die dood veroordeel
19 en Hom oorlewer aan die heidene om Hom te bespot en te g,sel en te kruisig; en op die derde dag sal Hy opstaan.
20 Toe kom die moeder van die seuns van Sebed,Âs met haar seuns na Hom en buig voor Hom neer om iets van Hom te vra.
21 En Hy sê vir haar: Wat wil jy hê? Sy antwoord Hom: Sê dat hierdie twee seuns van my in u koninkryk mag sit, een aan u regter-- en een aan u linkerhand.
22 Maar Jesus antwoord en sê: Julle weet nie wat julle vra nie. Kan julle die beker drink wat Ek aanstons gaan drink, en gedoop word met die doop waarmee Ek gedoop word? Hulle sê vir Hom: Ons kan.
23 En Hy sê vir hulle: Dis waar, my beker sal julle drink en met die doop waarmee Ek gedoop word, sal julle gedoop word; maar om te sit aan my regter-- en aan my linkerhand berus nie by My om te gee nie, maar is vir hulle vir wie dit deur my Vader berei is.
24 En toe die tien dit hoor, was hulle verontwaardig oor die twee broers.
25 Maar Jesus het hulle na Hom geroep en gesê: Julle weet dat die owerstes van die nasies oor hulle heers en die groot manne oor hulle gesag uitoefen;
26 maar so moet dit onder julle nie wees nie; maar elkeen wat onder julle groot wil word, moet julle dienaar wees.
27 En elkeen wat onder julle die eerste wil word, moet julle dienskneg wees;
28 net soos die Seun van die mens nie gekom het om gedien te word nie, maar om te dien en sy lewe te gee as 'n losprys vir baie.
29 En toe hulle uit J,rigo uitgaan, het 'n groot menigte Hom gevolg.
30 En daar het twee blindes langs die pad gesit; en toe hulle hoor dat Jesus verbygaan, roep hulle uit en sê: Wees ons barmhartig, Here, Seun van Dawid!
31 En die skare het hulle bestraf, dat hulle moes stilbly; maar hulle het al harder geroep en gesê: Wees ons barmhartig, Here, Seun van Dawid!
32 Toe gaan Jesus staan en roep hulle en sê: Wat wil julle hê moet Ek vir julle doen?
33 Hulle antwoord Hom: Here, dat ons oë geopen mag word.
34 En Jesus het innig jammer vir hulle gevoel en hulle oë aangeraak, en dadelik het hulle oë gesien, en hulle het Hom gevolg.
1 For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.
2 And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.
3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;
4 And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.
5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?
7 They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.
8 And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.
9 And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.
10 Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.
11 And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
12 Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
13 But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?
14 Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you.
15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
16 So the last will be first, and the first last.
17 And when Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples on one side, and said to them,
18 See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death,
19 And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.
21 And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
22 But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
23 They say to him, We are able. He says to them, Truly, you will take of my cup: but to be seated at my right hand and at my left is not for me to give, but it is for those for whom my Father has made it ready.
24 And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.
25 But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.
26 Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;
27 And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:
28 Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
29 And when they were going out from Jericho, a great number went after him.
30 And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.
31 And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.
32 And Jesus, stopping, sent for them, and said, What would you have me do to you?
33 They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.
34 And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.