1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Matthew 20

1 Christ, by the similitude of the labourers in the vineyard, sheweth that God is debtor unto no man: 17 foretelleth his passion: 20 by answering the mother of Zebedee's children, teacheth his disciples to be lowly: 30 and giveth two blind men their sight.

 20:1 ¶ The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

 20:2 And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

 20:3 And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle.

 20:4 And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.

 20:5 And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

 20:6 But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

 20:7 They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.

 20:8 And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.

 20:9 When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

 20:10 But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny.

 20:11 And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

 20:12 Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

 20:13 But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

 20:14 Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.

 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

 20:16 So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are called but few chosen.

 20:17 ¶ And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart and said to them:

 20:18 Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn him to death.

 20:19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.

 20:20 ¶ Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, adoring and asking something of him.

 20:21 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.

 20:22 And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.

 20:23 He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.

 20:24 And the ten, hearing it, were moved with indignation against the two brethren.

 20:25 But Jesus called them to him and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and that they that are the greater, exercise power upon them.

 20:26 It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among you, let him be your minister.

 20:27 And he that will be first among you shall be your servant.

 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

 20:29 And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

 20:30 ¶ And behold two blind men sitting by the way side heard that Jesus passed by. And they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

 20:31 And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

 20:32 And Jesus stood and called them and said: What will ye that I do to you?

 20:33 They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be opened.

 20:34 And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And immediately they saw and followed him.