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Matthew 19:16 (NIV)

Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

Matthew 19:17 (NIV)

“Why do you ask me what is good?” Jesus replied.

Matthew 19:17 (NIV)

“There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

Matthew 19:18 (NIV)

“Which one?” he inquired.

Matthew 19:18-19 (NIV)

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Matthew 19:20 (NIV)

“All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”

Matthew 19:21 (NIV)

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Matthew 19:22 (NIV)

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

Matthew 19:23 (NIV)

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:24 (NIV)

Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 19:25 (NIV)

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Matthew 19:26 (NIV)

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19:30 (NIV)

But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

Matthew 20:1 (NIV)

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20:2 (NIV)

He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3 (NIV)

About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Matthew 20:4-5 (NIV)

He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

Matthew 20:5 (NIV)

He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:6 (NIV)

About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

Matthew 20:7 (NIV)

‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:8 (NIV)

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

Matthew 20:9 (NIV)

The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.

Matthew 20:10 (NIV)

So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.

Matthew 20:11 (NIV)

When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.

Matthew 20:12 (NIV)

‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:13 (NIV)

But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius?

Matthew 20:14-15 (NIV)

Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Matthew 20:16 (NIV)

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.