The disciples should expect to be rewarded; but they should not be surprised if, when rewards are distributed, God will reward others in unexpected ways. Didst not thou agree to take up with heaven as thy portion, thy all, and to take up with nothing short of it? For many are called, but few chosen.. He received nothing from others; his was a life of giving, and the giving of a lifeNo service is greater than to redeem sinners by his own death, no ministry is lowlier than to die in the stead of sinners. (Spurgeon), ii. There may have been a very natural reason for this request. Would any man make of the Messiah a mere man and a mere subject of the law given by Moses? Matthew 20:16 Commentaries: "So the last shall be first, and the first Nothing can be simpler. General Epistles There is one very revealing little difference between Matthew's and Mark's account of this incident. Historical Books iii. [1.] Usually they hated and despised them, and hoped for nothing but their destruction. Yet it shall not be so among you is a stinging rebuke to the manner in which the modern church looks to the world for both its substance and style. The New Testament Jesus thought about how He would fulfill the will of His Father in the future. But the master well knew that 4p a day was no great wage; he well knew that, if a workman went home with less, there would be a worried wife and hungry children; and therefore he went beyond justice and gave them more than was their due. Wisdom Literature And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David! Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!. COUPLES DOUBLE CHALLENGE - we brought in our wonderful friends Vala \u0026 aonghas who also have Mini versions of their selves who where completely up for the challenge as well and super excited about getting dressed for the part :) haha leia \u0026 logan you guys where amazing !!!! As we have seen, the pay was 4 pence a day; and, if they were unemployed for one day, the children would go hungry at home, for no man ever saved much out of 4 pence a day. You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: Both James and John had to be baptized in suffering as Jesus was, but their cups and baptisms were different. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. It sheds light in three directions. The men who were standing in the market-place were not street-corner idlers, lazing away their time. They looked at one another, and they tried to fathom where there was no depth, but where the truth lay on the surface. (Spurgeon), vi. In gentleness, in sympathy, and in love, with never an impatient word, he seeks to lead them to the truth. (Matthew 20:24-28) The disciples reaction; Jesus sets forth true greatness. Anyone who took this parable as a practical basis for employment would soon be out of business." Poetical Books His cup may be drunk in one great moment; his cup may be drunk throughout a lifetime of Christian living. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. When the account was taken; when the evening was come, then, as usual, the day-labourers were called and paid. b. I injure no one, and have a right to do what I will with my own." The limit was reached by Peter the Lombard. That is why the first will be last and the last will be first. They confess their faith, and He touches their eyes. i. Jesus asked this question with full knowledge that these men were blind. Thus many are called by the preaching of the Gospel, but few are found who use their advantages in such a way as to become extensively useful in the Church-and many in the Church militant behave so ill as never to be admitted into the Church triumphant. Note, [1.] He therefore, 1. Out of the market-place, where, till they are hired into God's service, they stand idle (Matthew 20:3; Matthew 20:3), all the day idle (Matthew 20:6; Matthew 20:6). "And Jesus heard their cry and stood still. Except where noted, scripture quotations are taken from the Easy-to-Read Version 2001 by Bible League International. "There arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch, that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep." Their reward was as much of grace as was that of the bitter "firsters"! Nothing shall be withheld that was promised. Matthew 20:16-20 NIV - "So the last will be first, and the - Bible Gateway They measured Jesus by their own impotence. Neither would Jewish disciples necessarily receive more than Gentile disciples whom God calls later in His program of preparation for the kingdom (cf. Pauline Epistles Yet they were paid exactly the same. Then Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and he said unto them, [now He is on the way, there is probably great multitudes, but He takes the twelve apart] He said, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him and the third day he shall rise again ( Matthew 20:17-19 ). The New Testament This is one of the most revealing passages in the New Testament. The second is, "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen." 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. "Verily, I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." In Matthew 16:1-28 we advance a great step, spite (yea, because) of unbelief, deep and manifest, now on every side. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight." The Lord shows that such unbelief justly and necessarily excludes itself, but not others, from blessing. Thus it was not merely that there was an evil heart of unbelief in the Jew particularly, but law and grace cannot be yoked together. We have, first, the sower sowing the word. "Suffer me first," he says, "to go and bury my father." The moment to act goes past; the impulse to decide fades. And he said unto her, What is it that you want? If the Gentiles were to be allowed into the fellowship of the Church at all, they must come in as inferiors. Where love is, there is God.' Suffering from the disloyalty of friends. It is not a question of bringing in law to govern the kingdom or guide the Church. 14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Those whom Christ fed miraculously, though of different sizes, men, women, and children, did all eat, and were filled. They did not see why they should be allowed to stake their claims to preeminence. If I assume from the words "set forth in order," in the beginning of Luke's gospel, that therefore his is the chronological account, it will only lead me into confusion, both as to Luke and the other gospels; for proofs abound that the order of Luke, most methodical as he is, is by no means absolutely that of time. 20 Then the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus with her sons. Matthew did not wish to show James and John guilty of worldly ambition, and so he puts the request into the mouth of their mother rather than of themselves. She said to him, "Speak the word that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left, in your Kingdom." Something of affinity there is between this parable and that of the prodigal son, where he that returned from his wandering, was as dear to his father as he was, that never went astray; first and last alike. Yet is He the Son of man who hath power on earth to forgive sins; and He uses His authority. And I do believe that in communion there should always be healing services, where people as they take the broken bread and remember the suffering of Jesus Christ, by faith receive the result of that suffering; the purpose for which God allowed Him to be suffered, and receive healing and strength in your body. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner: Like many of Jesus parables, this story is about an employer and those who work for him. Hence, the Lord Jesus is here disclosing throughout, that the doom of Israel was pronounced and impending. THE MIND OF JESUS ( Matthew 20:20-28 continued). When do you suppose these conversations actually occurred, if we go to the question of their date? Hold out, faith, and patience, yet a little while. b. The discontent arose not because of any injustice in the landowner, but because of jealousy in the all-day workers (Matthew 20:9-15). It can only mean here the "invited." i. General Epistles Accordingly, here we have, first, the Lord judging the wrong thoughts of "Scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem." The Lord, while thoroughly proving that He forgot nothing, owned everything that was of grace in Peter or the rest, while opening the same door to "every one" who forsakes nature for His name's sake, solemnly adds, "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." A daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage. PREVIOUS Matthew 20:15 NEXT Matthew 20:17. Mark gives them in the end of his second and the beginning of his third chapters. There are a great many things which have to be done at the moment or they will never be done. [Note: France, The Gospel . HEARTLIGHT is a registered service mark of Heartlight, Inc. | Privacy Policy. Here is the agreement made with the labourers (Matthew 20:1-7; Matthew 20:1-7); and here it will be asked, as usual. This is applied to the Jews (Matthew 22:14; Matthew 22:14); it was so then, it is too true still; many are called with a common call, that are not chosen with a saving choice. Thus shall every mouth be stopped, and all flesh be silent before God. b. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! It is a direct violation of both the two great commandments at once; both that of love to God, in whose will we should acquiesce, and love to our neighbour, in whose welfare we should rejoice. The money was paid by the overseer, but he was standing by enjoying the scene. (Bruce). [2.] So the last shall be first, and the first last,. As he had asserted in Matthew 19:30 and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but, few chosen; in Christ from all eternity, both to grace and glory; and in consequence, and as an evidence of it, but few among the Jews; as also in the Gentile world, comparatively speaking: and even but a few of those that are outwardly called, are inwardly and effectually called by the powerful grace of God, out of darkness into marvellous light, into the grace and liberty of the Gospel, into communion with Christ, and to the obtaining his kingdom and glory, according to the eternal purpose of God. And yet the true faithful saints of God, who have been obedient to the bidding of the Lord to go into the vineyard, and no matter what place, what time, it is their faithfulness to the call of God in going for which God makes the reward.In fact, I do believe that many times those who have been called to a more prominent ministry will actually receive a much lesser reward because we get so much reward now. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Cecil Northcott in Famous Life Decisions tens of what Kagawa did. At that time Jesus answered, "I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes. And He had compassion upon them, and healed them. That they might possibly be outstripped by their successors in profession, and, though they were before others in profession, might be found inferior to them in knowledge, grace, and holiness. In Matthew 17:1-27 another scene appears, promised in part to some standing there in Matthew 16:28, and connected, though as yet hiddenly, with the cross. Ties him to his bargain (Matthew 20:14; Matthew 20:14); Take that thine is, and go thy way. 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. Pauline Epistles Here is the story of two men who found their way to a miracle. Minor Prophets The Gospels The fact is, in judging others we judge ourselves. He had no reason to quarrel with the master; for what he gave was absolutely his own, Matthew 20:15; Matthew 20:15. "I have seen the children of the world to come (elsewhere (e) it is, of the chamber), , "and they are few".''. Matthew 20:16 Interlinear: So the last shall be first, and the first Who hires them? The landowner asked if they were jealous because the landowner was generous to other people. Note, There is a great proneness in us to think that we have too little, and other too much, of the tokens of God's favour; and that we do too much, and others too little, in the work of God. It is clearly the failure of nature, the reversal of what might be expected. 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. Whereas, on the contrary, there are other kinds of order that call for more profound thought and enlarged views, if we may speak now after the manner of men; and, indeed, I deny not that these the Holy Ghost employed in His own wisdom, though it is hardly needful to say He could, if He pleased, demonstrate His superiority to any means or qualifications whatsoever. Jesus knew what was going on in their minds; and he spoke to them words which are the very basis of the Christian life. But the mission is given here in strict accordance with what the gospel demands. Beracot, fol. It is simply designed to teach that in the church, among the multitudes who will be saved, Christ makes a difference. 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. So the last shall be first, and the first last The GENTILES, who have been long without the true God, shall now enjoy all the privileges of the new covenant; and the Jews, who have enjoyed these from the beginning, shall now be dispossessed of them; for, because they here rejected the Lord, he also hath rejected them. 2. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Imagine a slave being given leadership! (Carson). We have each of us our own vineyard to keep, our own soul; and it is God's and to be kept and dressed for him. I have endowed them with apostolic gifts or with superior talents, and suited them for wider usefulness. So the last will be first, and the first last: Peter and the disciples knew they had given up a great deal to follow Jesus. It is true, we have only one in Mark, as in Luke; whereas in our gospel we have two. He was to be mocked by the Romans; there we see the suffering of humiliation and of deliberate insult. These words of Jesus gave rise to an old and complicated theological question: to whom did Jesus pay the ransom? Then the mother of Zebedees sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him. Gods grace always operates righteously. So the last shall be first, and the first last As he had asserted in ( Matthew 19:30 ) and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but, few chosen; in Christ from all eternity, both to grace and glory; and in consequence, and as an evidence of it, but few among the Jews; as also in the Gentile world, comparatively speaking: and even but a few of those that are outwardly called, are inwardly and effectually called by the powerful grace of God, out of darkness into marvellous light, into the grace and liberty of the Gospel, into communion with Christ, and to the obtaining his kingdom and glory, according to the eternal purpose of God. ". 111. But at the same time it is plain, although He bore the consciousness of the vast change He was introducing, and expressed it thus fully and early in the history, nothing turned away His heart from Israel. Those that have such a journey to go, had need set out betimes, the sooner the better. The Christian works for the joy of serving God and his fellow-men. This parable of the labourers in the vineyard is intended. About the third hour, [nine o'clock in the morning], he saw others standing idle in the market place, and he said unto them; Go into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. Thereon the Lord also has His word to say, first reminding Peter of his new name suitably to what follows. Note, First, The church is God's vineyard; it is of his planting, watering, and fencing; and the fruits of it must be to his honour and praise. It puts the Devil on a level with God; it means that the Devil could dictate his terms to God, before he would let men go. God does not look on the amount of our service. In Matthew it is their mother. This parable may sound to us as if it described a purely imaginary situation, but that is far from being the case. Such is His grace, such His wisdom. Matthew 20 | ESV Bible | YouVersion 97. Of course, both do preserve chronological order when it is compatible with the objects the Holy Spirit had in inspiring them; but in both the order of time is subordinated to still greater purposes which God had in view. Spurgeon applied this to us spiritually: Why is any one of us remaining idle towards God? Never heard of them before. Yet He confidently announced to His disciples that this would happen. In view of the context, the 12 disciples correspond to the workers hired at the beginning of the day, the beginning of Jesus public ministry. The evil eye was an idiom used to refer to jealousy (cf. In this manner, each tribe successively chose four soldiers, till the legions were complete. The only reason we will receive any reward is that God has called us to be His workers. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. And they would lay this leather whip across the back, and it was so designed, that when they pulled it back up to rip up pieces of flesh.The purpose of the scourging was the third-degree Roman style. Is thine eye evil, because I am good? The blessings of the kingdom are the same for all who enter, whether Jews who had worshipped God for centuries, or Gentiles who had just been saved from heathenism; whether scribes who had studied Gods law for many years, or tax collectors who had just repented; whether those who had served God for a lifetime, or those converted in old age. A man out of his plenty may give us a gift of a hundred pounds, and in truth we are grateful; a child may give us a birthday or Christmas gift which cost only a few pence but which was laboriously and lovingly saved up for--and that gift, with little value of its own, touches our heart far more. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? It is all of grace and not of debt; nor does that exclude obedience. God does not permit Scripture to be thus used without losing its force, its beauty, and the grand object for which it was written. 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. Dress up - slacks/tie, skirt/shirt. As the apostles were the first-fruits of the whole church, they appeared to possess some superiority; and Christ did not deny that they would sit as judges to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. If God shall bless your brother, and make him ten times more useful than you are, then you see that he is blessing you not only blessing him, but you. 2. "Reversal!" Matthew 20:16 (What Jesus Did!) - Heartlight And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. i. The English translators have thus given the sense well; for the expression really conveys this slight, though the word "fellow" is printed in italics. Matthew, Mark and John all give lists of the women who were at the Cross when Jesus was crucified. The Christian is a man put upon his honour by Jesus. The crowd rebuked them, so that they might be silent. Here, too, these Pharisees question and reproach His grace, when they see the Lord sitting at ease in the presence of publicans and sinners, who came and sat down with Him in Matthew's house. When the ten heard about this, they were angry with the two brothers. Start for FREE. His wounds are those which he receives in the house of his friend. (Spurgeon). "Jesus deliberately and cleverly led the listeners along by degrees until they understood that if Gods generosity was to be represented by a man, such a man would be different from any man ever encountered." Secondly, Obedient believers agree with God for their penny in the other world, and they must remember that they have so agreed. He didn't come that people might cater to Him and minister to Him, He came to minister to the people's needs. But every Scripture that treats of that time proves what dread, what anxiety, what dark clouds will be ever and anon. Matthew 20:16New International Version. The details, found elsewhere, of her being at the point of death then, before reaching the house, the news that she was dead, are not here. It means that no matter when a man enters the Kingdom, late or soon, in the first flush of youth, in the strength of the midday, or when the shadows are lengthening, he is equally dear to God. "I am certain that there is much about the scourging about Jesus that we do not fully understand. "Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David!" Beyond the curtain of suffering lay the revelation of glory; beyond the Cross was the Crown; beyond the defeat was triumph; and beyond death was life. We are, in fact, in the presence of that which John so loves to dwell on Jesus viewed not merely as Son of David or Abraham, or Seed of the woman, but as the Father's Son, the Son as the Father gave, sent, appreciated, and loved Him. The impression is that the landowner was surprised to find people idle, because he had plenty of work to give them. "The cross," he said, "was a mousetrap (muscipula) to catch the devil, baited with the blood of Christ.". 20:17-19 As he was going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples apart, and said to them, while they were on the road, "Look you, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the Scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify; and on the third day he will be raised.". Secondly, Till we are hired into the service of God, we are standing all the day idle; a sinful state, though a state of drudgery to Satan, may really be called a state of idleness; sinners are doing nothing, nothing to the purpose, nothing of the great work they were sent into the world about, nothing that will pass well in the account. . Workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.(A). Reject Him as the Messiah; in that rejection the moral glory of the Son of man would be laid as the foundation of His exaltation and manifestation another day; He was Lord of the Sabbath-day. To convince the murmurer that he did no wrong, he refers him to the bargain: "Didst not thou agree with me for a penny? But the Lord could not send her away without a blessing, and without a blessing reaching to His own glory. Because Matthew's object is the display of the change of dispensation through, or consequent on, the rejection of Jesus by the Jews. without holiness no man shall see the Lord. To hire laborers for his vineyard: The landowner went to the marketplace, which was the gathering place for day laborers. To underscore this, Jesus will give a parable (20:1-16) that amplifies the principle: 'many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first'," (20:16; 16:25). Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. And they went their way. Judgment will have early cut them off. In this we have another striking illustration of the same principle, because this miracle, in point of fact, was wrought long before the healing of the centurion's servant, or even of the leper. Let me passingly notice a very few particulars. If He offers to go to his house, it was to bring out the faith that He had created in the heart of the centurion. Secondly, Others are savingly wrought upon in middle age; Go work in the vineyard, at the third, sixth, or ninth hour. As before he asserted his justice, so here his sovereignty; Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Didst not thou agree to take God's word for it? Now what is Jesus seeking to teach by this parable of sending forth the laborers into the vineyard? So in this case there was brought to Him a paralytic man, lying upon a bed, "and Jesus, seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." 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? When He reigns as David's Son, there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts. Therefore He could not have any broken bones. If the first workers had been paid first, they would not have had time to develop the expectation of more pay for themselves. Work for God will not admit of trifling. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. The indignation of the ten doubtless sprang less from humility than jealousy plus fear that they might lose out. (Carson). Far different this was from the errand on which He was intent; but He was there for faith. He said to them, "My cup you are to drink; but to sit on my right hand and my left is not mine to give, but that belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
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