It is a picture of what was about to take place when the Lord Jesus, quitting Israel and the earth, ascends on high, and all assumes another form not the reign upon earth, but intercession in heaven. It was made after a series of announcements by Jesus that ahead of him lay an inescapable Cross; it was made at a moment when the air was heavy with the atmosphere of tragedy and the sense of foreboding. And he said unto her, What is it that you want? and what had the Son of David to do with a Canaanite? 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. Oh, you have to love the mothers, don't you? He will never be less than fair, but reserves the right to be more than fair as pleases Him. Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first: These are day laborers, so they are paid at the end of each day. (vi) Surely that brings us to the supreme lesson of the parable--the whole point of work is the spirit in which it is done. Probably thisto teach us that men who have wrought in Christ's service all their days may, by the spirit which they manifest at the last, make it too evident that, as between God and their own souls, they never were chosen workmen at all. 3 He went out about nine o'clock . Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
There is here the first decisive step to the last act of the inescapable tragedy. Now according to the historians, this scourging was such an awful taxing thing upon the person that many people never made it to the cross. The crowd commanded them to stop their shouting; they were making a nuisance of themselves. Prophets They knew that they were the chosen people, nor would they ever willingly forget that choice. For many are called, but few chosen.". Hence, he waits to present their rejection of the Messiah, as morally complete as possible in his statement of it, though necessarily not complete in outward accomplishment. Poetical Books Suffering from the disloyalty of friends. If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. i. Time would fail now to dwell on this chapter, interesting as it is. The plucking of the corn, and the healing of the withered hand, had taken place long before. Here we see the worldly ambition of the disciples in action. Prophets Those hired later correspond to other people who became Jesus disciples later in His ministry. The tribunes of the second and third likewise made their choice one after another; and he that remained entered into the fourth legion. Heartlight is supported by loving Christians from around the world. But the Lord could not send her away without a blessing, and without a blessing reaching to His own glory. A great tempest. Minor Prophets And he said, "If a person eats or drinks in an unworthy manner, he is eating and drinking damnation to his own soul"( 1 Corinthians 11:26 ). Second, the parable of the laborers in the vineyard is about the first and the last. Therefore it was not a mere simple fact that He banished sickness or infirmity, but He carried them in His spirit before God. Major Prophets He knew what they needed and what they wanted, but God still wants us to tell Him our needs as a constant expression of our trust and reliance on Him. What the account was; and in that observe. It appears to me, that the nature or aim of Mark's gospel demands this. The apostles were sent forth at the first and third hour of the gospel day; they had a first and a second mission, while Christ was on earth, and their business was to call in the Jews; after Christ's ascension, about the sixth and ninth hour, they went out again on the same errand, preaching the gospel to the Jews only, to them in Judea first, and afterward to them of the dispersion; but, at length, as it were about the eleventh hour, they called the Gentiles to the same work and privilege with the Jews, and told them that in Christ Jesus there should be no difference made between Jew and Greek. The offence removed.
Commentary on Matthew 20:1-16 - Working Preacher From Luther Seminary He is among the sick, he stands with the unemployed. What Jesus Did! Is thine eye evil, because I am good? The Lord Jesus, even before He pronounced the sentence, for so it was, indicated what was at hand in these two instances of the Sabbath-day, though one may not now linger on them. Nor is this all. Here is the story of two men who found their way to a miracle. 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. Neither giveth he an account of any of his matters; nor is it fit he should. Kagawa was left standing in a ragged old kimono. And wilt thou seek for a happiness in the creature, or think from thence to make up the deficiencies of thy happiness in God? GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point What Jesus Did! They had heard of the miracles that He had wrought, up in the area of Galilee, around Capernaum. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16); Jesus a Third Time Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Matthew 20:17-19; Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34); Greatness is Serving (Matthew 20:20-28); Two Blind Men Receive Their Sight (Matthew 20:29-34). The idea was you were to confess the crimes that you had committed against Rome, and as you confessed your crimes, the man who was administering that scourging would go easier and easier on you. Who but God could heal? It is worth stopping to see what the crude hands of theology have done with that lovely saying. He also strongly claimed his right to do what he wanted with what was his. That's one of the two. I will obey to the end.. Those who recognize the grace they have received by being included in God's Kingdom will be given places of honor. Succa, fol. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.(A). 20:1-16 The direct object of this parable seems to be, to show that though the Jews were first called into the vineyard, at length the gospel should be preached to the Gentiles, and they should be admitted to equal privileges and advantages with the Jews. All our service is already due to God; it belongs to Him. The youth were instructed, almost from their cradle, in military exercises. Not only shall the Judge of all the earth do right, but what will not He do who gives all good? It is not for such depending creatures as we are to quarrel with our Sovereign. Dress up - slacks/tie, skirt/shirt. Cookie Notice:
No doubt the tempest was great; but what harm could it do to Jesus? (Matthew 20:20-21) The mother of James and John asks for a place of special status for her sons. (Matthew 20:11-15) The complaint of the early workers. 1. When the legions were thus completed, the citizens who had been called, but not chosen, returned to their respective employments, and served their country in other capacities. About five o'clock in the evening he went out and found others standing there, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day idle?' And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard . To me it is evident, from a careful comparison of them all, as I think it is capable of clear and adequate proof to an unprejudiced Christian mind, that neither Matthew nor Luke confines himself to such an order of events. The man's walk before them testifies to the reality of his forgiveness before God. Many of them bleed to death.
Matthew 20:16 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary v. Living under grace is sort of a two-edged sword. But none the less do we find His affections engaged for the help of the helpless. But if you were silent and refused to confess your crimes, then each time he would lay the whip on heavier, and heavier, until you'd be forced to cry out your crime against the Roman government. "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. Used by permission. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Matthew 20:16 New International Version 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Read full chapter Matthew 20:16 in all English translations Matthew 19 Matthew 21 New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. 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. So the last will be first, and the first last, Betrayed they will condemn Him to death deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. Wisdom Literature If those who trusted in themselves that they were wise and righteous would not have Him, He would call even a publican on the spot to be among the most honoured of His followers, and would not disdain to be their joy when they desired His honour in the exercise of His grace. They said to him, "We can." 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Having left Nazareth, as we saw, He takes up His abode in Capernaum, which was henceforth "His own city." Matthew, Mark and John all give lists of the women who were at the Cross when Jesus was crucified. In the next scene, then, we have the disciples as a whole tried by a sudden danger to which their sleeping Master paid no heed. The glory of Christ's person strengthens us, not only to understand His cross, but to take up ours. Deuteronomy 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:9). (Carson), ii. 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. And to these men who were blind, they saw this as their one opportunity for a whole new life. Matthew chapter 20 New International Version 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. The Roman penny was, in our money, of the value of a sevenpence half-penny, a day's wages for a day's work, and the wages sufficient for a day's maintenance. So, I believe now, there is no attempt ever made on the Name of the Son of God, there is not a single shaft levelled at Him, but the Spirit turns to the holy, and true, and sweet task of asserting anew and more loudly His glory, which enlarges the expression of His grace to man. and when they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples [in both the parables and the explanations alluding to what we possess in Matthew 13:1-58.]. In Matthew 13:1-58 we have the well-known sketch of these new ways of God. It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. They worked in the heat of the day while others shaded themselves. Who hires them? In this manner, each tribe successively chose four soldiers, till the legions were complete. Sometimes we go without when God would want to give us something simply because we will not answer this question, and we do not have because we do not ask (James 4:2). They did not see why they should be allowed to stake their claims to preeminence. This parable is not a perfect illustration of Gods grace, because the principle of working and deserving is involved. It is the death-blow to human tradition and ordinance in divine things, and in reality depends on the truth of the absolute ruin of man a truth which, as we see, the disciples were very slow to recognize.
Adventure Challenge - Couple's Edition - Matthew 20:16 - YouTube Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. General Epistles That many who begin last, and promise little in religion, sometimes, by the blessing of God, arrive at greater attainments in knowledge, grace, and usefulness, than others whose entrance was more early, and who promised fairer. 4. More and more excellent shall be the children of the desolate than those of the married wife,Isaiah 54:1. Who knows but that the church, in its old age, may be more fat and flourishing than ever, to show that the Lord is upright? Who could touch the leper save Emmanuel? The failure of this greatest of women-born only gives Him the just occasion to show the total change at hand, when it should not be a question of man, but of God, yea, of the kingdom of heaven, the least in which new state should be greater than John. After this, dismissing the multitudes, He retires alone, to pray, on a mountain, as the disciples toil over the storm-tossed lake, the wind being contrary. But when the Lord was here, no matter what the unbelief of others, it was only an opportunity for the grace of Jesus to shine out. The New Testament He was there for the express purpose of glorifying God. Again he went out about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, [noon and three in the afternoon], he did likewise. Which means that each lash that was laid upon Him, was laid with greater ferocity, as they were seeking to elicit from Him some confession of wrong, but He had done no wrong. The grounds of such a judgment will naturally come before us ere long: I can merely refer to it now as my conviction. i. The true disciple does not begin his work in the masters vineyard by first calculating his own value. 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." It brings me to the real crisis; that is, the final presentation of our lord to Jerusalem. Whether you love to hike, bike, paddle or simply chase waterfalls, we have an Adventure Challenge for you! 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.(A), 17Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. If there be a privilege more manifest than another which has dawned on us, it is what we have found by and in Jesus, that now we can say nothing is too great for us, nothing too little for God. "There arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch, that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep." It ought to be so with every forgiven soul. But, as I have stated, the choice and ordination of the twelve apostles had really taken place before the sermon on the mount, though not mentioned in Matthew, but in Mark and Luke.
It was not more truly Christ's kingdom as man than He was God's own Son, His beloved Son, in whom He was well pleased, who was now to be heard, rather than Moses or Elias, who disappear, leaving Jesus alone with the chosen witnesses. Then came to Him the mother of Zebedee's children [now James and John were the sons of Zebedee and she came to Him] with her sons ( Matthew 20:20 ). Taken together, the entire picture is one of great suffering. They plucked his hair, they smote his cheeks, they spat in his face. Pauline Epistles The earnestness of these men was marvelous; they were desperate to be healed, and ignored the crowd that tried to quiet them (they cried out all the more).