MODERN LITERAL VERSION

20:1 For* the kingdom of heaven is similar to a man who was a householder, who went out at the same time every morning to hire workers into his vineyard.
20:2 And when he had agreed with the workers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 And he went out around the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace;
20:4 and he said to them, You* also go into the vineyard and I will give you* whatever is just. And they went.
20:5 Again going out around the sixth and the ninth hour and he did likewise*.
20:6 And around the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why are you* standing here idle all day?

20:7 They say to him, Because no one has hired us.
So he says to them, You* also go into the vineyard and I will give you* whatever is just.
20:8 And when it became evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his commissioner, Call the workers and give to them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.
20:9 And when they who were hired around the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius apiece.
20:10 And when the first came, they supposed that they will receive more, but they themselves also received a denarius apiece.

20:11 And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
20:12 saying, These last ones have only done one hour of work and you have made* them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the burning heat.

20:13 But answering, he said to one of them, Comrade, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
20:14 Take up what is yours and go away. It is my will to give to this last one, as I also did to you.
20:15 Or is it not legal for me to do what I will with my own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?
20:16 So the last will be first and the first last; for* many are invited but few are chosen.
{Mk 10:32-45 & Mt 20:17-28 & Lk 18:31-34; Peraea or Judea, near Jordan.}

20:17 And while going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples privately by the road and he said to them,
20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be given up to the high-priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
20:19 and they will give him to the Gentiles, *that* they should mock and scourge and crucify him, and in the third day he will rise* again.

20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons came to him, worshiping him and asking something of him.
20:21 And he said to her, What do you wish?
She says to him, Say that* these, my two sons, may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left hand, in your kingdom .

20:22 But Jesus answering, said, You* do not know what you* ask. Are you* able to drink the cup which I am about to drink and to be immersed* with the immersion* to which I am about to be immersed*?
They say to him, We are able .

20:23 And he says to them, Indeed, you* will drink my cup and you* will be immersed* with the immersion* to which I am immersed*, but to sit at my right and at my left, is not mine to give, but it is for them for whom it has been prepared by my Father.
20:24 And when the ten heard it, they were indignant concerning the two brothers.

20:25 But Jesus called them to him and said, You* know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones wield authority over them.
20:26 But it will not be so among you*, but whoever wishes to become great among you*, he will be your* servant;
20:27 and whoever wishes to be first among you*, let him be your* bondservant;
20:28 just-like the Son of Man did not come to be served to, but to serve and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.
{Mk 10:46-52 & Mt 20:29-34 & Lk 18:35-43; Jericho.}

20:29 And as they went out from Jericho, a large crowd followed him.
20:30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, saying, Lord, son of David, show-mercy on us!
20:31 And the crowd rebuked them, that* they should be silent, but they cried out louder, saying, Lord, son of David, show-mercy on us!

20:32 And Jesus stood and summoned them and said, What do you* will that I might do for you*?

20:33 They say to him, Lord, that* our eyes might be opened.
20:34 And Jesus, having compassion, touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes recovered their sight and they followed him. {Week of the Crucifixion..}