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And he contracted with the labors for a denarius a day: and sent them into his vineyard.

But he answered, and said to one of them: My friend, I do thee no injustice: was it not for a denarius that thou didst contract with me?

Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I am disposed to give to this last, as to thee.

Is it not lawful for me, to do what I please with what belongeth to me; or is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few.

Jesus answered and said: Ye know not what ye ask for. Can ye drink of the cup, of which I am to drink? or be baptized with the baptism, that I am baptized with? They say to him: We can.

He saith to them: Ye will [fn] drink of my cup, and will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but that ye should sit on my right hand and on my left, is not mine to give, except to those for whom it is prepared by my Father.

even as the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.

And Jesus stopped, and called them, and said: What wish ye, that I should do for you?

And he saw a fig-tree by the way, and came to it and found nothing on it, except leaves only. And he said to it: There shall no more be fruit on thee for ever. And immediately the fig-tree withered.

And if we should say, From men; we are afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a prophet.

32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him: and ye, after ye had seen [fn] , did not even then repent and believe in him.

And when the time for the fruits arrived, he sent his servants to the cultivators that they might remit to him of the fruits of the vineyard.

And at last he sent to them his son: for he said, Perhaps they will respect my son.

The kingdom of heaven is like to a royal person, who made a feast for his son.

For the called are many, and the chosen are few.

And they sent to him their disciples, with domestics of Herod, and said to him: Teacher, we know that thou art veracious, and teachest the way of God with truth, regardless of man, for thou hast no respect of persons.

In the resurrection, therefore, to which of those seven will she be the wife? For they all had taken her?

For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven.

He saith to them: How then doth David, by the Spirit, call him Lord? for he said: