So many people, both in things material and in things spiritual, get what they want, and then forget even to say thanks. And that's exactly what the word, "minister" means, servant. Many a man in this world, who has earned great rewards, will have a very low place in the Kingdom because rewards were his sole thought. (2.) 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. Matthew 20 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. This came out most blessedly through the disciples. It was really after the transfiguration recorded in chapter 17 of our gospel. It doesn't mean someone who is to be looked up to, and someone who is to be catered to, and someone who is to be bowed to, and all of this kind of stuff, and do special favors because he is the minister. 97. Therefore it was not a mere simple fact that He banished sickness or infirmity, but He carried them in His spirit before God. If we understand it of that which is ours by debt or absolute propriety, it would be a dreadful word; we are all undone, if we be put off with that only which we can call our own. In Jesus' name. 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. The power of divine grace is magnified in the conversion of some, when they are in the midst of their pleasures and worldly pursuits, as Paul. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. Some make it a caution to the disciples, who had boasted of their timely and zealous embracing of Christ; they had left all, to follow him; but let them look to it, that they keep up their zeal; let them press forward and persevere; else their good beginnings will avail them little; they that seemed to be first, would be last. Warning those who were using this Love feast as an excuse just to sort of gorge themselves, and they were not really realizing the spiritual significance of these things. It is equally clear that the seven worse spirits mean the complete energy of the devil in the maintenance of Antichrist against the true Christ: and this, strange to say, along with idols. The Gentile church, which was as yet unborn, the Gentile world, which as yet stood idle in the market-place, would produce greater numbers of eminent, useful Christians, than were found among the Jews. Faithful labourers shall receive their reward when they die; it is deferred till then, that they may wait with patience for it, but no longer; for God will observe his own rule, The hire of the labourers shall not abide with thee all night, until the morning. There is an element of human tenderness in this parable. Finally, we have all wound up, after the going forth of a testimony which was truly universal in its scope, by the judicial severance at the close, when it is not only the good put into vessels, but the bad dealt with by the due instruments of the power of God. PRODUCT REVIEW: The Adventure Challenge Couple's Edition It is the end of the account of Jesus itinerant ministry, and its setting as they went out of Jericho points forward to the next town on the road, Jerusalem. (France). Matthew 20 - Wikipedia Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. The Gospels The unparalleled grace of the Saviour must form and fashion the saints henceforth. Deuteronomy 15:9; 1 Samuel 18:9). (Carson), ii. In a sense, everybody is called to recognize God through the natural world, but the word "chosen" shows that God must personally rescue us from our self-centered blindness. "That by His stripes you may be healed." Being in the right state of mind to do the Lords work is a gift of grace. From God they will both receive the same welcome, for both Jesus Christ is waiting, and for neither, in the divine sense, has life ended too soon or too late. All rights reserved worldwide. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today? Sometimes a young person dies almost before the door of life and achievement have opened at all. All through their history the Jews had dreamed of the Messiah; but the Messiah of whom they had dreamed was always a conquering king, a mighty leader, one who would smash the enemies of Israel and reign in power over the kingdoms of the earth. What was that cup? It was a grave step this, and in view of His rejection now. Grant that these two sons of mine may sit: Asking on behalf of her sons (note to whom Jesus replies in Matthew 20:22-23), she wanted prominent positions for them in the messianic administration of Jesus. Johannine Writings It ought to be so with every forgiven soul. The grand lesson is that men do not deserve or merit salvation. (Matthew 20:16) The parable applied: the principle of Gods reward. Then follows another incident, which equally proves that the Spirit of God is not here reciting the facts in their natural succession; for it is assuredly not at this moment historically that the Lord goes into the house of Peter, sees there his wife's mother laid sick of a fever, touches her hand, and raises her up, so that she ministers unto them at once. 2. The manner, too, was in itself remarkable. All our service is already due to God; it belongs to Him. But whereas the most unlikely people entered the kingdom, those for whom it had been prepared were excluded (Matthew 20:16). 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). But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister [or servant]; And whosoever will be the chief among you, let him be the bondslave ( Matthew 20:23-27 ): Jesus here is teaching the servanthood of the ministry and the path to greatness. Challenge the Adventurer within you! Herein is where the prophecy of Isaiah really stands out: "As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth"( Isaiah 53:7 ). So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. How often the heart shows itself, not merely by what we ask, but by the uncalled-for feelings we display against other people and their faults! i. Men were in the grip of a power of evil which they could not break; their sins dragged them down; their sins separated them from God; their sins wrecked life for themselves and for the world and for God himself. So this seems to be the words that couch this particular parable. Matthew 20:16 - KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. d T. Hieros. Poetical Books . It would require the credulity of a sceptic to believe that this is not the self-same fact that we have before us inMatthew 8:1-34; Matthew 8:1-34. 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. After this, in the chapter we have the positive hindrance asserted of what man counts good. . Not but that there is a counsel in every will of God, and what seems to us to be done arbitrarily, will appear at length to have been done wisely, and for holy ends. That means that James and John were full cousins of Jesus; and it may well have been that they felt that this close relationship entitled them to a special place in his Kingdom. Luke-Acts Matthew calls her the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Mark calls her Salome; and John calls her Jesus' mother's sister. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. (Matthew 20:8-10) The landowner pays his workers. To labour in his vineyard. Luke-Acts It is simply designed to teach that in the church, among the multitudes who will be saved, Christ makes a difference. The Old Testament Matthew 19. 1. Then they remembered, oh, yeah, He said He was going to rise on the third day. His reply came in stages. ., p. If we accept it as the true reading, it adds something to the warning of the previous clause. Yet it shall not be so among you: Their desire for position and status showed they did not yet know the nature of Jesus in respect to leadership and power. He here is predicting the fact that He is going to be scourged. There is room also for the most thorough self-abnegation. a. They worked while the others were idle. Israel must give full testimony in the bright day of His coming. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They said to Him, We are able. So He said to them, You will indeed drink 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 is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.. He maintains His sovereign title to do good, to do as He will with His own. The prisoner would be tied to a post in such a way, as your back would be stretched. He does not come to be served, but to serve. In the eighth chapter of Matthew as it tells of them bringing all of their sick and those who were diseased to Jesus, and He healed them, every one, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying, "He in His own body bore our sufferings." Wisdom Literature Judas one of the twelve, who is listening to Him, will be the one who betrays Him. The spirit, as well as the form, was alien. Pauline Epistles Not only will it be fair, it will be generous beyond expectation. Thirdly, The gospel call is given to those that stand idle in the market-place. Those who recognize the grace they have received by being included in God's Kingdom will be given places of honor. And every Jewish mother wants the best for her son. Jesus stood and called them. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point They may come at the beginning of their life, in their youth, in adulthood, in old age, or at the very end. He never failed to tell men that, even if life ends in crown-wearing, it continues in cross-bearing. That they might mock me, scourge me, and crucify me, but I will rise again on the third day.Now again whenever Jesus talked to His disciples about His death, this thought was so repulsive to them, their minds just turned off, and they never heard, "I am going to rise again on the third day." 2. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Matthew 20 | NLT Bible | YouVersion And everybody will always try to discourage you, but persist, for there is a whole new life. The age of serving in the army was from seventeen to forty-five, and the manner in which they were chosen was the following: -. Beracot, fol. They have treated the Bible either with levity, or as too awful a book to be apprehended really; not with the reverence of faith, which waits on Him, and fails not in due time to understand His word. Jesus thought about how He would fulfill the will of His Father in the future. And then he repeats this again. It is probable that James and John were closely related to Jesus. It was an imperfect faith but they acted on it; and Jesus accepted it. Historical Books Verse 29 gives us strict time. It is the paradox of the Christian life that he who aims at reward loses it, and he who forgets reward finds it. They supposed that they would receive more: The men who worked for the landowner all day saw the men who worked for only an hour come away from the pay table, and they supposed, If the landowner is paying these guys a full days pay for one hours work, then we will get far more., i. God, by his gospel, is hiring labourers into his vineyard, to dress it, and keep it, paradise-work. There were many that followed Christ now in the regeneration, when the gospel kingdom was first set up, and these Jewish converts seemed to have got the start of others; but Christ, to obviate and silence their boasting, here tells them. He now takes His place of rejection; for Him it is manifest even now by their inmost thoughts of Him when revealed. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 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. how is it that ye have no faith? Accordingly, here we have a witness of it, and a witness so much the sweeter, because the present total rejection that was filling the heart of the leaders surely testified to the Lord's heart of that which was at hand. He was to be mocked by the Romans; there we see the suffering of humiliation and of deliberate insult. May we not go even further with this thought of comfort? The indulgence of the selfish, murmuring temper might hinder their election even to that work. We can be assured that God will never, ever be unfair to us, though He may for His own purpose and pleasure bestow greater blessing on someone else who seems less deserving. In him there was a spiritual force far beyond that found in the leper, to whom the hand that touched, as well as cleansed, him proclaimed Israel's need and state as truly as Emmanuel's grace. The rich young ruler was not converted: far from being so, he could not stand the test applied by Christ out of His own love, and, as we are told, "went away sorrowful." Free Challenge: Mr & Mrs Smith. The crown set before us is a crown of righteousness, which the righteous Judge shall give. That they might possibly be outstripped by their successors in profession, and, though they were before others in profession, might be found inferior to them in knowledge, grace, and holiness. And so anti what Jesus has declared. The details, found elsewhere, of her being at the point of death then, before reaching the house, the news that she was dead, are not here. Others think it refers to how the gospel first dawned with John the Baptist, then the preaching of Jesus, then the preaching at Pentecost, then to the Jews, and finally to the Gentiles. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 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. Taken together, the entire picture is one of great suffering. Matthew 20:16 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary - StudyLight.org The men who stood in the market-place were waiting for work, and the fact that some of them stood on until even five o'clock in the evening is the proof of how desperately they wanted it. So our goal as disciples is to value things now as God does. Suffering from the disloyalty of friends. 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 question was not who or what came in the way; whoever appealed to Him, there He was for them. This is one of the most revealing passages in the New Testament. Take what is yours and go your way. 1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 2:26). And when they had sent away the multitude, they took Him even as He was in the ship. In the next incident the force of the plea turns on God's goodness towards the wretchedness of man. A fish was the last being for man to make his banker of; with God all things are possible, who knew how to blend admirably in the same act divine glory, unanswerably vindicated, with the lowliest grace in man. Possibly the first felt their vanity wounded by being paid after the others. The book features 50 challenges to do with your partner at affordable price points (FREE to about $50). A man is not a Christian if his first concern is pay. Matthew 20:16-20 NIV - "So the last will be first, and the - Bible Gateway c. Lord, Son of David: However, in their desperation they glorified Jesus. ), but as some charitable generous householders keep poor men to work, in kindness to them, to save them from idleness and poverty, and pay them for working for themselves. Thus explained, this parable has no reference to the call of the Gentiles, nor to the call of aged sinners, nor to the call of sinners out of the church at all. They have not seized the aim of each gospel. He would send fit messengers, nor would the work be done till the rejected Messiah, the Son of man, came. Our job as disciples is to keep searching and including the lost, the last, and the least in the Kingdom and not just those who can bring us some benefit. They cannot hurt the Christ. If it be so, it is surely a ground of thankfulness to God; for it turns a stumbling-block into an evidence of the perfection of Scripture. But this is enough to silence all murmurs and objectors, that God is sovereign Lord of all, and may do what he will with his own. Minor Prophets WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THE CHALLENGE WAS Hey, Im Tia and my aim is to travel the world with my camera and of course my wonderful partner is coming along and enjoying the ride with me ! As the elder brother, in the parable of the prodigal, repined at the reception of his younger brother, and complained of his father's generosity to him; so these labourers quarrelled with their master, and found fault, not because they had not enough, so much as because others were made equal with them. "Of whom do the kings of the earth take custom? In this work we must not be slothful, not loiterers, but labourers, working, and working out our own salvation. So it was here; and our Lord turns to eternal account, in His own goodness, the shortcoming of John the Baptist, the greatest of women-born. Little faith leaves us as fearful for ourselves as dim witnesses of His glory whom the most unruly elements obey. 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. Did you not come to an agreement with me to work for 4 pence ? The evil eye was a jealous, envious eye. 45. The woman at last meets the heart and mind of Jesus in the sense of all her utter nothingness before God; and then grace, which had wrought all up to this, though pent-up, can flow like a river; and the Lord can admire her faith, albeit from Himself, God's free gift. That blessed One was here whom he knew to be God, who was to him the impersonation of divine power and goodness His presence was uncalled for, His word more than enough. Sometimes a man dies full of years and full of honour, with his day's work ended and his task completed. Life had been imparted to, the sleeping maid of Zion the blind men call on Him as the Son of David, and not in vain. 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. He is first of all betrayed by Judas to the chief priests, because Judas made a bargain with the priests to turn Jesus over to them. ii. . It is an evil eye, which is displeased at the good of others, and desires their hurt. The disciples should expect to be rewarded; but they should not be surprised if, when rewards are distributed, God will reward others in unexpected ways. But if this be so, there is here absolute certainty that our Lord, on the very Sabbath in which He cast out the unclean spirit from the man in the synagogue of Capernaum, immediately after quitting the synagogue, entered the house of Peter, and that there and then He healed Peter's wife's mother of the fever. And as they stood there with those clouds over their eyes, Jesus said, "What do you want?" It was clearly a question of connection with the apostle of the circumcision ( i.e., Peter's wife's mother). He went to live in a six foot by six-foot hut in a Tokyo slum. It is not for such depending creatures as we are to quarrel with our Sovereign. Well, then, to whom was the ransom paid?" He went out again about nine o'clock in the morning, and saw others standing idle in the market-place. iv. Whatever the time may have been, whatever the incidents added by others, the account is given here for the purpose of showing, that as Israel's case was desperate, even unto death, so He, the Messiah, was the giver of life, when all, humanly speaking, was over. All this is what happens when men take the poetry of love and try to turn it into man-made theories. It seemed the last place on earth to which a man in his condition should have gone. It is a very significant story, for it paints a picture of the spirit and of the attitude of mind and heart to which the most precious gifts of God are open. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands." But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius.
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