020:008 "When evening came, the master said to his steward, "`Call the men and pay them their wages. Begin with the last set and finish with the first.'
020:009 "When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received
a shilling apiece;
020:010 and when the first came, they expected to get more, but they
also each got the shilling.
020:011 So when they had received it, they grumbled against
the employer, saying,
020:012 "`These who came last have done only one hour's work, and you have put them on a level with us who have worked the whole day and have borne the scorching heat.'
020:013 "`My friend,' he answered to one of them, `I am doing you
no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a shilling?
020:014 Take your money and go. I choose to give this last comer
just as much as I give you.
020:015 Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property?
Or are you envious because I am generous?'
020:016 "So the last shall be first, and the first last."
020:017 Jesus was now going up to Jerusalem, and He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them,