1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out at dawn to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 After agreeing with the workers on a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 Going out around the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace with nothing to do,
4 and he told them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is fair.'
5 And they went off. He went out again around the sixth and the ninth hour and did the same.
6 Around the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here the whole day doing nothing?'
7 They answered him, 'Because nobody has hired us.' He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is fair you will receive.'
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last and going on to the first.'
9 Those hired around the eleventh hour came, and each received a denarius.
10 So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more; but each of them also received a denarius.
11 On receiving it, they began to complain against the householder,
12 saying, 'These last men put in just one hour, and you have treated them as equal to us, who carried the burden of the day and its burning heat.'
13 But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not treating you unjustly. Did you not agree with me on a denarius?
14 Take what belongs to you and go. It is my wish to give this last man the same as I gave you.
15 Or am I not permitted to do what I want with what is my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?'
16 In this way the last will be first and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately, and on the way he said to them,
18 "Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will sentence him to death,
19 and they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise again."
20 Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons, bowing down and asking a favor of him.
21 He asked her, "What is it you want?" She told him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom."
22 Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are requesting. Can you drink the cup I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism with which I am being baptized?" They told him, "We can."
23 He told them, "My cup you will certainly drink, and with the baptism with which I am being baptized you will be baptized; but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give; it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
24 When the ten heard this, they became indignant at the two brothers.
25 Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them, and their great men wield authority over them.
26 It will not be this way among you; rather, whoever wants to become great among you is to be your minister,
27 and whoever wants to be first among you is to be your servant,
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be waited on but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him.
30 And there were two blind men sitting beside the road; when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
31 The crowd scolded them to make them be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
32 Jesus stopped, called to them, and said, "What do you wish me to do for you?"
33 They said to him, "Lord, let our eyes be opened."
34 Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once their eyes regained sight, and they followed him.