Matthew 20:17
And Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem: and he took his twelve disciples aside, on the way, and said to them:
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
In Context
16Thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few.
Cross References
Matthew 16:13And when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he questioned his disciples, and said: What do men say concerning me, that I the Son of man, am?
Luke 18:31And Jesus took his twelve, and said to them: Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and all the things written in the prophets, concerning the Son of man, will be fulfilled.
John 15:15I no longer call you servants; because a servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you my friends; because, whatever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:2-17
The Labourers in the Vineyard. 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and… Read the whole commentary →