b. In the case of the laborers, those who worked all day did not deserve their pay after having thrown it on the ground. As it has been put, this parable states implicitly two great truths which are the very charter of the working man--the right of every man to work and the right of every man to a living wage for his work. Or is your eye evil because I am good? He tells him that those he envied should fare as well as he did; "I will give unto this last, even as unto thee; I am resolved I will." Our job as disciples is to keep searching and including the lost, the last, and the least in the Kingdom and not just those who can bring us some benefit. Blessed Paul guarded against this, when, though the chief of the apostles, he owned himself to be nothing, to be less than the least of all saints. In spite of their lack of merit, the good householder required them to pick it up, thus giving it to them in spite of their forfeiture. "On his first night he was asked to share his bed with a man suffering from contagious itch. It was His meat to do the will of God. Matthew 20. Jesus came to give his life a ransom for many. Even if Jesus had not specifically told them, their movement south from Galilee at about the time of the Passover feast made it easy to figure out that Jesus and the disciples would be in Jerusalem for Passover. Poetical Books Note, [1.] a. The Lord, however, in the same chapter, shows that it was not a question alone of what was to be done, or to be suffered, or is to be by-and-by, but what He was, and is, and never can but be. Men were in the grip of a power of evil which they could not break; their sins dragged them down; their sins separated them from God; their sins wrecked life for themselves and for the world and for God himself. On the other side of the picture, behold the Lord leading on a soul to draw on divine grace in the most glorious manner. We begin with the comparatively limited significance it originally had. Nevertheless, His ear was open to the call on behalf of Israel perishing, dying, dead. The pattern is the Son of man saving the lost. Matthew 20:16 in all English translations. Zion may say of the Lord who laboured in vain, whom the nation abhorred, "The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me." If the first workers had been paid first, they would not have had time to develop the expectation of more pay for themselves. (Matthew 20:16) The parable applied: the principle of Gods reward. They said to him, "We can." The world knows quite well that a good man is a man who serves his fellow-men. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Major Prophets When we are converted, we become members of Christs living body; and as we grow in grace, and get the true spirit that permeates that body, we shall say, when any member of it is honored, This is honor for usIf any brother shall be greatly honored of God, I feel honored in his honor. We need not dwell upon it. Their reward was as much of grace as was that of the bitter "firsters"! He evinces, that at the very time when Peter forgot the vision and the Father's voice, virtually reducing Him to mere man, He was God manifest in the flesh. Matthew 20 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Matthew 20:16-20 New International Version 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time 17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. There is hope for old sinners; for if, in sincerity, they turn to God, they shall doubtless be accepted; true repentance is never too late. And He came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them." In this work we must not be slothful, not loiterers, but labourers, working, and working out our own salvation. They were not attached to any group; they were entirely at the mercy of chance employment; they were always living on the semi-starvation line. They that come from the east and west, and so come in late, that are picked up out of the highways and the hedges, shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, at the same feast, Matthew 7:11; Matthew 7:11. He welcomed his bed-fellow. essayed to destroy the testimony with their utmost and blasphemous contempt. I will obey to the end.. The New Testament The woman of Canaan, out of the borders of Tyre and Sidon, appeals to Him; a Gentile of most ominous name and belongings a Gentile whose case was desperate; for she appeals on behalf of her daughter, grievously vexed with a devil. We can never repay God for what he has done for us but we can always be grateful to him. God is the Owner of all good; his propriety in it is absolute, sovereign, and unlimited. This parable taught the disciples not to think of heavenly rewards in terms of justice, getting in proportion to what they deserved. But nothing would stop the two blind men; for them it was a matter of sight or blindness, and nothing was going to keep them back. 20Then the mother of Zebedees sons(K) came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down,(L) asked a favor of him. My object, of course, is to point out as clearly as possible the structure of the gospel, and to explain according to my measure why there are these strong differences between the gospels of Matthew and the rest, as compared with one another. These are the words of an older gentleman who trusted Christ a few days before he died from cancer. "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof" He had only to say in a word, and his servant should be healed. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible If God was there, what else could He, would He do? In spite of all he had said, here were these men and their mother still chattering about posts in an earthly government and kingdom. They worked while the others were idle. The plucking of the corn, and the healing of the withered hand, had taken place long before. (Matthew 20:11-15) The complaint of the early workers. 2. The Gospels If, amid the multitude of Christians, I choose to signalize such men as Paul, and Martyn, and Brainerd, and Spencer, and Summerfield - to appoint some of them to short labor but to wide usefulness, and raise them to signal rewards, I injure not the great multitude of others who live long lives less useful and less rewarded. Hence it is that He has grouped together circumstances which make this plain, without raising the question of when they occurred; in fact, they range over a large space, and, otherwise viewed, are in total disorder. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. It is not a question of bringing in law to govern the kingdom or guide the Church. [2.] . A man is not a Christian if his first concern is pay. There were many that followed Christ now in the regeneration, when the gospel kingdom was first set up, and these Jewish converts seemed to have got the start of others; but Christ, to obviate and silence their boasting, here tells them. Matthew 20:16 English Standard Version 16 So the last will be first, and the first last." Read full chapter Matthew 20:16 in all English translations Matthew 19 Matthew 21 English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. In Matthew 16:1-28 we advance a great step, spite (yea, because) of unbelief, deep and manifest, now on every side. We are put to our choice; for hired we must be (Joshua 24:15); Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. Observe that it is at this point the chapter begins with vindicating the sanctity of marriage. Successful service to God is the gift of His grace. Jesus was moved with compassion to the depths of his being, and touched their eyes; and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him. Therefore let him who would meet God visit the prison cell before going to the temple. And yet in spite of that the disciples are thinking of a Kingdom. As a consequence they looked down on the Gentiles. The reason for the change is this--Matthew was writing twenty-five years later than Mark; by that time a kind of halo of sanctity had become attached to the disciples. The first is, as it has been said, "All service ranks the same with God." How are we to account for a selection so marked, an elimination of time so complete? They don't understand all of the provision that the Lord has made for them. Far from lowering the position of His servant, He declares there was none greater among mortal men. This doth not prove that the reward of our obedience to God is of works, or of debt (no, it is of grace, free grace,Romans 4:4), or that there is any proportion between our services and heaven's glories; no, when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants; but it is to signify that there is a reward set before us, and a sufficient one. And who knows, but what they may have put her up to it, because when Jesus asked the question, they're ready to respond. Conversely in some cases those whom God called early in their lives may not receive as much reward as those called later in life. Sufferers for Christ in the latter days, shall have the same reward with the martyrs and confessors of the primitive times, though they are more celebrated; and faithful ministers now, the same with the first fathers. God has work for all ages; no time amiss to turn to God; none can say, "It is all in good time;" for, whatever hour of the day it is with us, the time past of our life may suffice that we have served sin; Go ye also into the vineyard. The Gentile church, which was as yet unborn, the Gentile world, which as yet stood idle in the market-place, would produce greater numbers of eminent, useful Christians, than were found among the Jews. Jesus thought about how He would fulfill the will of His Father in the future. Not only were they healed, but they also followed the One who did great things for them. First, Some are effectually called, and begin to work in the vineyard when they are very young; are sent in early in the morning, whose tender years are seasoned with grace, and the remembrance of their Creator. In the kingdom so much the less sparing is the retribution of those who despise or abuse grace. "Day laborers" would be readily available in the market place. Then shalt thou call, saith the good and faithful servant, and I will answer. He calls him friend, for in reasoning with others we should use soft words and hard arguments; if our inferiors are peevish and provoking, yet we should not thereby be put into a passion, but speak calmly to them. "Verily, I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." We have here not only our Lord's ministry in the first parable, but in the second parable that which He does by His servants. They were offended that the landowner gave the men who worked less equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. And so they were actually thinking evil, because of His good. ". vii. That meant that they did believe him to be the Messiah, but it also meant that they were thinking of Messiahship in terms of kingly and of earthly power. For less than $5/mo. Many be called, but few chosen - The meaning of this, in this connection, I take to be simply this: "Many are called into my kingdom; they come and labor as I command them; many of them are comparatively unknown and obscure; yet they are real Christians, and shall all receive the proper reward. Jesus uses a kind of gradation. It should also encourage us in reference to the hardships and difficulties of our work, that it is but for a day; the approaching shadow, which the servant earnestly desireth, will bring with it both rest, and the reward of our work,Job 7:2. The money was paid by the overseer, but he was standing by enjoying the scene. (Bruce). Didst not thou agree to take God's word for it? He is not going to lower Himself to a human measure. Then the mother of Zebedees sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. We are in his hand, as clay in the hands of a potter; and it is not for us to prescribe to him, or strive with him. And they went. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. But the parable may be applied more generally, and shows us, 1. 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Some make it a caution to the disciples, who had boasted of their timely and zealous embracing of Christ; they had left all, to follow him; but let them look to it, that they keep up their zeal; let them press forward and persevere; else their good beginnings will avail them little; they that seemed to be first, would be last. Seeking the Gospel in Malachi, the Last Book of the Old Testament. He is the Lord of the harvest. In this he had laboured, as he said, from his youth up: "What lack I yet?" Luke-Acts The true disciple rests easy in the assurance that because his pay is from a Master of grace, it will be gracious. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Though Cushi gets the start of Ahimaaz, yet Ahimaaz, choosing the way of the plain, outruns Cushi. They put it off until a more convenient time, but so often the more convenient time never comes. Any worker was welcome, even if he could give only an hour to the work. (Barclay). get answers to your Bible questions from 50+ resources ($2,400+ value! Notice is taken of the several hours of the day, at which the labourers were hired. Note, There are but few chosen Christians, in comparison with the many that are only called Christians; it therefore highly concerns us to build our hope for heaven upon the rock of an eternal choice, and not upon the sand of an external call; and we should fear lest we be found but seeming Christians, and so should really come short; nay, lest we be found blemished Christians, and so should seem to come short,Hebrews 4:1. He went out again about twelve o'clock midday, and about three o'clock in the afternoon, and did the same. Though primitive Christianity had more of the purity and power of that holy religion than is to be found in the degenerate age wherein we live, yet what labourers may be sent into the vineyard in the eleventh hour of the church's day, in the Philadelphian period, and what plentiful effusions of the Spirit may then be, above what has been yet, who can tell? The ability to serve God is the gift of His grace. 4. God's generosity will not succumb to human jealousy. Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. The leper approaches the Lord with homage, but with a most inadequate belief in His love and readiness to meet his need. (E) They will condemn him to death 19and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged(F) and crucified. Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money. It is the end of the account of Jesus itinerant ministry, and its setting as they went out of Jericho points forward to the next town on the road, Jerusalem. (France). None can suppose that these were deemed useless, or that, because not now chosen to serve their country in the field, they were proscribed from the rights and privileges of citizens, much less destroyed, because others were found better qualified to serve their country at the post of honour and danger. Because it is free grace, that is given to those that have it, boasting is for ever excluded; and because it is free grace, that is withheld from those that have it not, murmuring is for ever excluded. They had their mistaken ambitions; they had their blindness; they had their wrong ideas; but he never dreamed of writing them off as bad debts. b. THE LORDSHIP OF THE CROSS ( Matthew 20:20-28 continued). The Old Testament Lord cometh, his reward is with him, to give unto every man according as his work shall be, as one star differeth from another star in glory, so shall it be. And then he said interesting things for this cause; "There are many who are weak and sick among you, because they do not understand the Lord's body"( 1 Corinthians 11:30 ). Certainly, He did not arrange His own betrayal. God does not look on the amount of our service. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a And if thou hast what thou didst agree for, thou hast no reason to cry out of wrong; thou shalt have what we agreed for." This is the more to be noticed, inasmuch as the gospel of Matthew has been in general adopted as the standard of time, save by those who have rather inclined to Luke as supplying the desideratum. When they heard that Jesus was passing by: They knew this might be their last time to meet Jesus. That God is debtor to no man; a great truth, which the contents in our Bible give as the scope of this parable. They complained against the landowner: After being paid, the men hired first took up their complaint with the landowner. The point is that God rewards on the principle of grace, and we should therefore expect surprises. It's God's to give, however, to whomever He pleases. The parable itself displays a reversal of expectations "the last will be first and the first will be last"; this is not only the summary of the parable (20:16), but a critical aspect of New Testament theology. Taken together, the entire picture is one of great suffering. But Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you ask. He tells them that they should not have gone over (or finished) the cities of Israel till the Son of man be come. The Christian is a man put upon his honour by Jesus. Will be betrayed: Conceivably, Jesus could have been delivered to the religious authorities without this. 45. Adventure Challenge - Couple's Edition - Matthew 20:16 - YouTube What we have, is not our own, and therefore it is not lawful for us to do what we will with it; but what God has, is his own; and this will justify him, First, In all the disposals of his providence; when God takes from us that which was dear to us, and which we could ill spare, we must silence our discontents with this; May he not do what he will with his own? Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. If he were willing to follow the Lord, it was for what he could get. 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. Matthew 20:16 - "So the last will be first, and the - Bible Gateway The motives of the natural heart are laid bare. We have two things in the parable; the agreement with the labourers, and the account with them. Neither giveth he an account of any of his matters; nor is it fit he should. Mark gives them in the end of his second and the beginning of his third chapters. Get the BEST VALUE in digital Bible study as you prepare for Easter. 21 "What is your request?" he asked. The truth of this is apparent, if we compare the gospel of Mark. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. In later days others will come in. He said to them, 'Go you also into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' Matthew 19. But, from first to last, what a trial of spirit, and what triumph! Thus the great tree and the leavened mass are in fact the two sides of Christendom. There was value for Him to look at His coming trial, and to think and say, I will complete what My Father has given Me to do. That was all over for the moment through Israel's blind sin; He was going to suffer, not yet reign, at Jerusalem. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? What could be said of her intelligence then? Apart from the method of payment, the parable describes the kind of thing that frequently happened at certain times in Palestine. 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We are going to Jerusalem. But the mission is given here in strict accordance with what the gospel demands. (iv) These two blind men were not afraid to bring a great request. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. They had certainly done nothing to merit a day's wages. Israel must give full testimony in the bright day of His coming. It was after our Lord had called the twelve, and ordained them not after He had sent them forth, but after He had appointed them apostles that the Lord comes down to a plateau upon the mountain, instead of remaining upon the more elevated parts where He had been before. In what follows we have that which is necessary, to complete the picture of the other side. So the last shall be first - This is the moral or scope of the parable. Now Paul said if you understand this, when you partake of the broken bread, you can receive from God a work of His Spirit in your body.Now many who do not understand this, are weak and sick, because they do not understand the Lord's body. (iii) These are the original lessons of this parable, but it has very much more to say to us. Or, are you grudging because I am generous?' And yet the Lord says, we get the penny, and so that's good enough for me.Now the Lord does here point out, "look if I want to be good, if I want to extend grace, you shouldn't really complain about the grace that I extend. And he went out about the third hour ( Matthew 20:3 ). The common call is promiscuous, to come and work in the vineyard; but the effectual call is particular, and it is then effectual when we come at the call. And if those who in the last moment come into the kingdom of God, God rewards them, and they receive the reward for their place in the kingdom. They used their waiting time in considering their own superiority to the latecomers. (Spurgeon). He came to occupy not a throne, but a cross. The evil eye was a jealous, envious eye. Now, it was an established principle, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word should be established. Of one of the disciples, whose state may have been specially present to our Lords mind, this was, we know, only too fatally true. It says simply, "And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." 4. e T. Bab. The picture is that the landowner had an inexhaustible supply of work for those who wanted to work. The crowd rebuked them, so that they might be silent. Let them recognize the power that banished the leprosy, and the grace withal that touched the leper. Secondly, the prophecy of Psalms declared, "not a bone of Him shall be broken"( Psalms 34:20 ). When he had come to an agreement with them that they would work for 4 pence a day, he sent them into his vineyard. c. They likewise received a denarius: Yet the men hired first early in the day, and who had worked all day got paid exactly what the landowner had promised them (a denarius a day, Matthew 20:2). Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. The true disciple is motivated by love not lust. Then comes the boast of Peter, though for others as well as himself. Heartlight Provides Positive Resources for Daily Christian Living. So He meekly retires, healing, yet forbidding it to be blazed abroad. In truth, this was Emmanuel, God with us. Three things the master of the house urges, in answer to this ill-natured surmise. It is a summons from the King to His people Israel. Here I close tonight. Yet He confidently said it would happen. The point isnt that all have the same reward though all Gods people do go to the same heaven (where they will have reward in different measure). WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS Hey, Im Tia and my aim is to travel the world with my camera and of course my wonderful partner is coming along and enjoying the ride with me ! In the evening multitudes are brought, taking advantage of the power that had so shown itself, publicly in the synagogue, and privately in the house of Peter; and the Lord accomplished the words ofIsaiah 53:4; Isaiah 53:4: "Himself," it is said, "took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses," an oracle we might do well to consider in the limit of its application here. i. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you . a. To take on the position of the minister is to take on the position of the servant to the flock of God. He had been there before. The woman at last meets the heart and mind of Jesus in the sense of all her utter nothingness before God; and then grace, which had wrought all up to this, though pent-up, can flow like a river; and the Lord can admire her faith, albeit from Himself, God's free gift. The giving of a whole day's wages to those that had not done the tenth part of a day's work, is designed to show that God distributes his rewards by grace and sovereignty, and not of debt. Jesus will use this story to answer a question from Matthew 19:27: See, we have left all and followed You. The fact is, beloved brethren, there is but one Jesus; and whoever it may be, whether John the Baptist, or the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, after all it is divinely-given faith which alone sustains: else man has to learn painfully somewhat of himself; and what is he to be accounted of? Once you scratch off the challenge, you have to do it. So the last will be first, and the first last. It was going on, then, to the bitter end, and surely not without such suffering and sorrow as holy, unselfish, obedient love alone can know. Many words are not now required for that which is happily familiar to most here. Judas had been called, but would not be among the chosen either for the higher work or for its ultimate reward-Interpreting the parable as we have been led to interpret it, we cannot for a moment imagine that its drift was to teach the disciples that they would forfeit their place in the kingdom. And because they were sent of God, they each one received from the Lord that same portion.Sometimes we see people who on their deathbed receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and they enter into eternal life. "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed Him, crying and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." If God gives that grace to others, which he denies to us, it is kindness to them, but no injustice to us; and bounty to another, while it is no injustice to us, we ought not to find fault with. Here is royalty and kingship restated and remade. It is a just prefiguration of what will be in the close of the age the mass of the unbelieving Jews, now impure, but then also given up to the devil, and so to evident perdition. 2. "Upon this rock," says He, "I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
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