matthew 20:16 adventure challenge

Those first hired are actually paid least in proportion to their labor and receive the least pleasure from their pay. Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David! 10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. Using the term "elect," Titus 1:1 reinforces the idea that God separates some few from the many who are called: "Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's . Hold out, faith, and patience, yet a little while. Jesus said that those who would share his triumph must drink his cup. It is hard for those that do or suffer more than ordinary for God, not to be elevated too much with the thought of it, and to expect to merit by it. (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. They had their mistaken ambitions; they had their blindness; they had their wrong ideas; but he never dreamed of writing them off as bad debts. The New Testament yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee. And they went their way. When time ends, and with it the world of work and opportunity, then the state of retribution commences; then call the labourers, and give them their hire. By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David! Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!. a. Deuteronomy 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:9). (Carson), ii. Other parables also teach that He will not (e.g., Matthew 25:14-30). It is not a thing that can be settled by a mere assertion. Now Paul the apostle as he is talking to the Corinthian Church about their abuse of the Love feast, where they were remembering the broken body of Jesus and His blood that was shed for our sins, Paul said, "that which I received from the Lord, I delivered also unto you. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight." They shall enter heaven, as was promised. This parable gives a vivid picture of the kind of thing which could happen in the market-place of any Jewish village or town any day, when the grape harvest was being rushed in to beat the rains. A man came there first thing in the morning, carrying his tools, and waited until someone hired him. It is worth stopping to see what the crude hands of theology have done with that lovely saying. The landowner reminded them that he had paid them the amount they had agreed to, and if he paid others the same amount, that was his concern. And He said to her, What do you wish? She said to Him, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.. The parable sets about to correct this misguided notion. 2. It is clearly the failure of nature, the reversal of what might be expected. The old people and work then closed in principle, and a new work of God in the kingdom of heaven was disclosed. Hence, the Lord Jesus is here disclosing throughout, that the doom of Israel was pronounced and impending. They looked at one another, and they tried to fathom where there was no depth, but where the truth lay on the surface. (Spurgeon), vi. . (Matthew 20:29-31) Two blind men gain the attention of Jesus. "Of whom do the kings of the earth take custom? There is an element of human tenderness in this parable. General Epistles The people might have failed, but, surely, there were some differences surely those that were honoured and valued were not so depraved! The strange thing is that instinctively the world itself has accepted these standards. He went to live in a six foot by six-foot hut in a Tokyo slum. Can you drink the cup which I have to drink?" But Jesus called them to Himself and said, You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. It does not say, that " then there came a leper," or " immediately there came a leper." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. Now this seems to be the principal scope of this parable, to show that the Jews should be first called into the vineyard, and many of them should come at the call; but, at length, the gospel should be preached to the Gentiles, and they should receive it, and be admitted to equal privileges and advantages with the Jews; should be fellow-citizens with the saints, which the Jews, even those of them that believed, would be very much disgusted at, but without reason. Will be betrayed: Conceivably, Jesus could have been delivered to the religious authorities without this. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 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. You shall indeed drink of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. Further, in strict justice the fewer hours a man worked, the less pay he should have received. get to know the Bible better! GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point And yet He takes time still to minister to the needs of others. So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, What do you want Me to do for you? They said to Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. His word should silence all our murmurings, that, whatever God does to us, or withholds from us, he does us no wrong. Matthew 20:16 in all English translations. God hires labourers, not because he needs them or their services (for, if we be righteous, what do we unto him? Dress up - slacks/tie, skirt/shirt. The second is, "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen." The giving of a whole day's wages to those that had not done the tenth part of a day's work, is designed to show that God distributes his rewards by grace and sovereignty, and not of debt. (Compare Mark 3:13-19, andMark 6:7-11; Mark 6:7-11; Luke 6:1-49; Luke 9:1-62) The mission of the apostles did not take place till afterwards. No man can ever claim that he began to follow Jesus under false pretences. Here we find our Lord, after sending out the chosen witnesses of the truth (so momentous to Israel, above all) of His own Messiahship, realizing His utter rejection, yet rejoicing withal in God the Father's counsels of glory and grace, while the real secret in the chapter, as in fact, was His being not Messiah only, nor Son of man, but the Son of the Father, whose person none knows but Himself. When the world and the devil begin to rebuke, in this case, it is a proof that the salvation of God is nigh; therefore, let such cry out a great deal the more. (Clarke). The parable of the workers in the vineyard 20:1-16. c. Lord, Son of David: However, in their desperation they glorified Jesus. Whatever might be the Church or the kingdom, it is precisely when the Lord unfolds His new glory in both the kingdom and the Church that He maintains the proprieties of nature in their rights and integrity. "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse." Third, this passage sheds a light on Jesus. He had been there before. It is not only the fact that God slighted matters of prescriptive ordinance because of the ruined state of Israel, who rejected His true anointed King, but there was this principle also, that certainly God was not going to bind Himself not to do good where abject need was. 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. 111. The Lord admired the faith superior to Israel's, and took that occasion to intimate the casting out of the sons or natural heirs of the kingdom, and the entrance of many from east and west to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens. (Matthew 20:3-7) Through the day, the landowner continues to hire workers. "On his first night he was asked to share his bed with a man suffering from contagious itch. But what a mercy that those who appear now to be rejected may be called in another muster, enrolled, serve in the field, or work in the vineyard? Finally, he was to be crucified; there we see the ultimate suffering of death. Let none suppose that, in giving my own convictions, I have the presumptuous thought of putting these forward as if they were the sole motives in God's mind. They should think of them in terms of grace, any reward being an act of Gods grace. Lastly, we have the Lord rebuking the ambition not only of the sons of Zebedee, but in truth also of the ten; for why was there such warmth of indignation against the two brethren? They next proceeded to the creation of subaltern officers, whom the tribunes chose from among the soldiers of the greatest reputation. Jesus was no doubt very weakened by it. Matthew 20:16 English Standard Version 16 So the last will be first, and the first last." Read full chapter Matthew 20:16 in all English translations Matthew 19 Matthew 21 English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. After Paul had preached on Mars Hill, there were those who said, "We will hear you again about this" ( Acts 17:32). (ii) These two blind men were undiscourageable. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Out in the world, said Jesus, it is quite true that the great man is the man who controls others; the man to whose word of command others must leap; the man who with a wave of his hand can have his slightest need supplied. Hence it is that He has grouped together circumstances which make this plain, without raising the question of when they occurred; in fact, they range over a large space, and, otherwise viewed, are in total disorder. On the other side of the picture, behold the Lord leading on a soul to draw on divine grace in the most glorious manner. (3.) The leper approaches the Lord with homage, but with a most inadequate belief in His love and readiness to meet his need. When they heard that Jesus was passing by: They knew this might be their last time to meet Jesus. Prophets without holiness no man shall see the Lord. In the kingdom so much the less sparing is the retribution of those who despise or abuse grace. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner, Whatever is right I will give you whatever is right you will receive, Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first, They supposed that they would receive more, equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day. So the last will be first, and the first last. But among my followers service alone is the badge of greatness. The circumstances of this serve to adorn the parable; but the general scope is plain, that the last shall be first. [Note: France, The Gospel . They put it off until a more convenient time, but so often the more convenient time never comes. For this challenge, you'll need dinner at home and two nerf guns. And she said unto him, Grant that these my two boys may sit, the one your right hand, and the other on your left, in your kingdom ( Matthew 20:20-21 ). You've never known them. It is the glory of Christ; not so much as Son of the living God, but as the exalted Son of man, who once suffered here below. New International Version (NIV). Poetical Books GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point And someone said, "Jesus is going by." Wisdom Literature iii. And then he repeats this again. He also strongly claimed his right to do what he wanted with what was his. However imperfect it may be, if faith is there, Jesus accepts it. In verse 13 our Lord "goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. And then he said interesting things for this cause; "There are many who are weak and sick among you, because they do not understand the Lord's body"( 1 Corinthians 11:30 ). None the less does the Lord uphold it, purged of what accretions had come in to obscure its original and proper character. The Old Testament (Matthew 20:11-15) The complaint of the early workers. (iv) Here, also, is the infinite compassion of God. It is more particularly sin, viewed as guilt, and consequently as that which absolutely breaks and destroys all power in the soul towards both God and man. Then comes the boast of Peter, though for others as well as himself. We can never repay God for what he has done for us but we can always be grateful to him. And so they were actually thinking evil, because of His good. Very apt we all are to undervalue the deserts of others, and to overvalue our own. He who had just confessed the glory of the Lord would not hear His Master speaking thus of His going to the cross (by which alone the Church, or even the kingdom, could be established), and sought to swerve Him from it. They had the desperation appropriate for those who know that today is the day of salvation. Then says the unclean spirit, "I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished. He was ignorant of himself, because ignorant of God, and imagined that it was only a question of man's doing good for God. How thoroughly did our Lord take a lowly place for our sakes! (Matthew 20:24-28) The disciples reaction; Jesus sets forth true greatness. 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. Thus the old link with the flesh, with Israel, is now disowned; and the new relationships of faith, founded on doing the will of His Father (it is not a question of the law in any sort), are alone acknowledged. c. Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant: In the Kingdom community, status, money, popularity should never be the prerequisites for leadership. Poetical Books Luke-Acts He did them no wrong, and had broken no promise. When the ten heard about this, they were angry with the two brothers. In Matthew 17:1-27 another scene appears, promised in part to some standing there in Matthew 16:28, and connected, though as yet hiddenly, with the cross. But if He here does not go beyond a hint of that which the Gentiles were about to receive on the ruinous unbelief and judgment of the Jew, He does not keep back their own awful course and doom in the figure that follows. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy If the Gentiles were to be allowed into the fellowship of the Church at all, they must come in as inferiors. [At the end of his parable about the Kingdom of Heaven being like workers hired at different times during the day, Jesus said,] "So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last.". It is a short time; the reward is for eternity, the work is but for a day; man is said to accomplish, as a hireling, his day,Job 14:6. And he went out about the third hour ( Matthew 20:3 ). Jesus came to give his life a ransom for many. There will be differences at the close. The question fairly arises, Why it is that the Holy Ghost has been pleased so remarkably to leave time out of the question in this chapter, as well as in the next? [3.] All this is what happens when men take the poetry of love and try to turn it into man-made theories. Ransom was most commonly used as the purchase price for freeing slaves. (Carson) Lytron (ransom) and the preposition anti (for, literally instead of) point clearly to the idea of his taking our place. (France), ii. ii. Jesus openly acknowledged the suffering and agony that awaited Him. Verse Matthew 20:16. The Lord, no doubt, knew the heart of His servant, and could feel for him in the effect that circumstances took upon him. There is hope of old sinners, that they may be brought to true repentance; nothing is too hard for Almighty grace to do, it can change the Ethiopian's skin, and the leopard's spots; can set those to work, who have contracted a habit of idleness. Subsequent, considerably, to this was the case of the centurion's servant, preceded a good while before by the cleansing of the leper. Pentateuch Did you not agree with me for a denarius? They were beggars; but it was not money they asked for, it was nothing less than sight. When God settles all the accounts, then things are going to be valued by his standards and not the world's standards. for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. The slum dwellers of Tokyo laughed at him, but they came to respect him. The grace of God does not give us more blessing than we deserve it gives blessing to us completely apart from the principle of deserving. His reply came in stages. Abstulit, sed et dedit--He hath taken away; but he originally gave. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. It should also encourage us in reference to the hardships and difficulties of our work, that it is but for a day; the approaching shadow, which the servant earnestly desireth, will bring with it both rest, and the reward of our work,Job 7:2. In this he had laboured, as he said, from his youth up: "What lack I yet?" He is talking about, no doubt, the scourging that He was going to receive, because it could not be that any of His bones should be broken. The offence taken (Matthew 20:11; Matthew 20:12); They murmured at the good man of the house; not that there is, or can be, any discontent or murmuring in heaven, for that is both guilt and grief, and in heaven there is neither; but there may be, and often are, discontent and murmuring concerning heaven and heavenly things, while they are in prospect and promise in this world. And still is he betrayed! i. But when he came to the first, they supposed that they should have received more; but they likewise received every man a penny. But the Son of God, blending the infinite majesty of his Deity with the perfect capacity to suffer as a man, offered an atonement of such inestimable value that he has absolutely paid the entire debt for his people. (Spurgeon), iv. There is room also for the most thorough self-abnegation. The hours in the parable were the normal Jewish hours. "If you wish to be great," he says, "be a servant; if you wish to be first of all be a slave." ), NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print: Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Galatians, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Story, Hardcover, Comfort Print: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People. Now do you think that God the Father would allow His Son to suffer unnecessarily? Then they remembered, oh, yeah, He said He was going to rise on the third day. ii. In our gospel we have not seen the apostles called and ordained. To my mind, the depth of such grace only enhances the beauty of Jesus, and is the very last possible ground that justifies man in thinking lightly of the Saviour. And He was Jesus, Emmanuel. . Remember, God doesn't look at us the way this world does. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a Thus He points out the utter moral incongruity of fasting at that moment, and intimates that it was not merely the fact that He was going to be rejected, but that to conciliate His teaching and His will with the old thing was hopeless. Changes, to us inexplicable, occur: many first last, and last first. Both Mark and Luke add their own touches to the story, to show that on this occasion there was in the atmosphere of the apostolic band a certain tenseness and a certain foreboding of tragedy to come. Disease must obey Him, as the soldier or the servant obeyed the centurion, their superior. Certainly, He did not arrange His own betrayal. He tells him that those he envied should fare as well as he did; "I will give unto this last, even as unto thee; I am resolved I will." "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Next, He lays bare the capricious unbelief of man, only consistent in thwarting every thing and one that God employs for his good; then, His own entire rejection where He had most laboured. For a day. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him. Then, alas! Beracot, fol. a. Now what is Jesus seeking to teach by this parable of sending forth the laborers into the vineyard? It is of immense significance to see that, even in a world in which the dark was coming down, the disciples would not abandon the conviction that the victory belonged to Jesus. None can suppose that these were deemed useless, or that, because not now chosen to serve their country in the field, they were proscribed from the rights and privileges of citizens, much less destroyed, because others were found better qualified to serve their country at the post of honour and danger. All rights reserved. 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. The fact of two without the personal details would not powerfully tell upon mere Gentiles perhaps, though to a Jew it might be for some ends necessary. mother of the sons of Zebedee ( Matthew 27:56). He said, "Call those fellows to me." Matthew chapter twenty opens with the parable of the laborers going out into the vineyard.And Jesus said. Adventure Challenge - Couple's Edition - Matthew 20:16 - Australia - part 1 142 views Jun 20, 2021 0 Dislike Share Tanya All Fun and Games 3 subscribers Grafton ten pin bowling alley. And everybody will always try to discourage you, but persist, for there is a whole new life. Jesus said that among the Gentiles there is this desire to exercise lordship and dominion over people. Thus the great tree and the leavened mass are in fact the two sides of Christendom. i. 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. But the parable may be applied more generally, and shows us, 1. What does it mean? First of all, because the sacrifice that was offered to God could not have any blemish, any broken bones. The better MSS., indeed, omit it here. Just the idea of Him being crucified was so shocking, that their minds in trying to absorb that, lost everything else He said after that. I say not how fax he had realized this profound truth; I say not that he could have defined his thoughts; but he knew and declared His command of all as truly God. They worked in the heat of the day while others shaded themselves. Next is the one pearl of great price, the unity and beauty of that which was so dear to the merchantman. "And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed Him, crying and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us." Compare Luke 17:7; Luke 17:8; Luke 12:37. Historical Books Now as they went out of Jericho, a great multitude followed Him. "That ye may know," He says, "that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," etc. Such was and is man. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. "Oh, you bet you, we're able." It was necessary to complete the picture. At the close of this chapter 9, in His deep compassion He bids the disciples pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into His harvest. HEARTLIGHT is a registered service mark of Heartlight, Inc. | Privacy Policy. i. b. Peter, the good confessor of chapter 16, cuts but a sorry figure in chapter 17; for when the demand was made upon him as to his Master's paying the tax, surely the Lord, he gave them to know, was much too good a Jew to omit it. 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. 2. Particular epochs in Luke are noted with great care; but, speaking now of the general course of the Lord's life, a little attention will discover, from the immensely greater preponderance paid to the consideration of time in the second gospel, that there we have events from first to last given to us in their consecutive order. Even at such a time that was not the end of his words, for he finished with the confident assertion of the Resurrection. The blessings of the kingdom are the same for all who enter, whether Jews who had worshipped God for centuries, or Gentiles who had just been saved from heathenism; whether scribes who had studied Gods law for many years, or tax collectors who had just repented; whether those who had served God for a lifetime, or those converted in old age. Among this celebrated people, no one was forced to serve his country in a military capacity and it was the highest honour to be deemed worthy of thus serving it. 2. If it was His rejection, these scornful men were themselves rejected in the very act. They did not see why the two brothers should steal a march on them, even if they were the cousins of Jesus. Laborers in the Vineyard. Gregory the Great took the picture to even more grotesque, almost revolting, lengths. He is not going to lower Himself to a human measure. Historical Books Secondly, Others are savingly wrought upon in middle age; Go work in the vineyard, at the third, sixth, or ninth hour. What can be conceived so perfectly to illustrate the great design of the gospel of Matthew?

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