And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? Conversely in some cases those whom God called early in their lives may not receive as much reward as those called later in life. To labour in his vineyard. He therefore, 1. This question is accordingly put to the proof in the ninth chapter. 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. c. They likewise received a denarius: Yet the men hired first early in the day, and who had worked all day got paid exactly what the landowner had promised them (a denarius a day, Matthew 20:2). Thou didst; and wilt thou go and agree with the world? He was going to build His Church "upon this rock" Himself, the Son of God. To all justice shall be done. To all to whom the rewards of heaven are promised they shall be given. And the third day He will rise again, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, 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, The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant, Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, When they heard that Jesus was passing by, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltera, David Guzik :: 1 Juan 2 Impedimentos para una comunin con Dios, David Guzik :: Gnesis 3 La tentacin y cada del hombre, David Guzik :: Gnesis 2 La CreacinTerminada; Adn en el Jardn del Edn, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), 1 Samuel 1-10 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 15-18 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Third Person of the Trinity (Chuck Smith), Second, a warning that Gods manner of distributing reward is not necessarily the manner of men (. People simply do not and cannot MERIT salvation. This attitude threatened to be carried forward into the Christian Church. We are going to Jerusalem. "Then," said the Lord, "are the children free. The Gospels If I assume from the words "set forth in order," in the beginning of Luke's gospel, that therefore his is the chronological account, it will only lead me into confusion, both as to Luke and the other gospels; for proofs abound that the order of Luke, most methodical as he is, is by no means absolutely that of time. Such is the perversity of man, that he who is not called thinks he can follow Jesus whithersoever He goes. When He uttered the words, "Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me," it is to me evident that there was an allusion to the wavering let it be but for a moment of John's soul. The prisoner would be tied to a post in such a way, as your back would be stretched. Had Peter confessed who the Son of man really is? Hold out, faith, and patience, yet a little while. ESV Text Edition: 2016. She was a regular member of the disciple group who accompanied Jesus (Matthew 27:56), so her involvement in her sons ambitious ideas is hardly surprising. (France). Then shalt thou call, saith the good and faithful servant, and I will answer. 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. 14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Oh, for grace so to bow and bless God, even when our little travail seems in vain! See Deuteronomy 24:15. 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. So thoroughly is it in view of Israel that our Lord does not say one word here about the Church, or the intervening condition of Christendom. Secondly, Others are savingly wrought upon in middle age; Go work in the vineyard, at the third, sixth, or ninth hour. Though Cushi gets the start of Ahimaaz, yet Ahimaaz, choosing the way of the plain, outruns Cushi. Notice that these people didn't go in on their own accord, the Lord sent them into the vineyard. The two blind men called upon Him as the Son of David; a sample this of what will be in the end, when the heart of Israel turns to the Lord, and the veil is done away. On this the Lord proceeds to take a step farther, and makes a deeper inroad, if possible, upon Jewish prejudice. To underscore this, Jesus will give a parable (20:1-16) that amplifies the principle: 'many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first'," (20:16; 16:25). Pauline Epistles 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. i. Deliver Him to the Gentiles: Jesus knew that the religious leaders of the Jews did not have authority to carry out capital punishment themselves; yet sometimes they executed men despite this prohibition (Acts 7:54-60). 1. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took Him even as He was in the ship. None the less does the Lord uphold it, purged of what accretions had come in to obscure its original and proper character. But nothing would stop the two blind men; for them it was a matter of sight or blindness, and nothing was going to keep them back. And Peter quoting Isaiah looking back at that scourging said, "by His stripes, ye were, past tense, healed"( 1 Peter 2:24 ). No word whatever implies that the cleansing of the leper happened at that time. 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. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and you've made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the heat of the day. Neither did He need to wait for His exaltation as man; for He was ever God, and God's Son, who therefore, if one may so say, waits for nothing, for no day of glory. And someone said, "Jesus is going by." 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. To him who compares this with Luke 6:1-49, there need not remain a question as to the identity of the scene. 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. All other things, although important, are secondary. Not so. He welcomed his bed-fellow. No doubt the tempest was great; but what harm could it do to Jesus? They may come at the beginning of their life, in their youth, in adulthood, in old age, or at the very end. Warning them against that casual, careless attitudes in which many of them were receiving it. [1.] 45. a. This signifies the jealousy which the Jews were provoked to by the admission of the Gentiles into the kingdom of heaven. Who but God could command not only the waves, but the fish of the sea? . The scribes, at the beginning of the chapter, could not hide from the Lord their bitter rejection of His glory as man on earth entitled, as His humiliation and cross would prove, to forgive. 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God's delight is to pick out the hindmost for the first place, to the disparagement of the foremost in their own strength. Next, we find Him confessed by the centurion, no longer as the Messiah, when actually with them, confessed according to a faith which saw the deeper glory of His person as supreme, competent to heal, no matter where, or whom, or what, by a word; and this the Lord Himself hails as the foreshadowing of a rich incoming of many multitudes to the praise of His name, when the Jews should be cast out. Three things the master of the house urges, in answer to this ill-natured surmise. Matthew 5:45). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Did you not agree with me for a denarius? But it would be unusual for a wealthy "landowner" to locate his own . [2.] [2.] 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!. Pauline Epistles i. (ii) These two blind men were undiscourageable. ., p. 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. The first thing to be remarked is, that the leper was an early incident in the manifestation of the healing power of our Lord. Judgment will have early cut them off. "And forthwith when they were come out of the synagogue they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John; but Simon's wife's mother was sick of a fever, and anon they tell Him of her. We are put to our choice; for hired we must be (Joshua 24:15); Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. 1. When God settles all the accounts, then things are going to be valued by his standards and not the world's standards. I do not believe that God would just allow His Son to take all of that suffering, if there were not some value to be received from that suffering. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, 18We are going up to Jerusalem,(C) and the Son of Man(D) will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. It sheds light in three directions. In the next discourse we may hope to have the rest of his gospel. But he answered, and said unto them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: did you not agree to work for a penny? 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. Try to discourage them from seeking Jesus. To represent to us the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 20:1; Matthew 20:1), that is, the way and method of the gospel dispensation. a. i. Jesus asked this question with full knowledge that these men were blind. Matthew chapter twenty opens with the parable of the laborers going out into the vineyard.And Jesus said. In the picture of the holy city in the Revelation there are twelve gates. She replied, "In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to you, one on your right and the other on your left.". The Rabbis had a saying, "Some enter the Kingdom in an hour; others hardly enter it in a lifetime." i. James had to be ready to be the first to die among the disciples; John had to be ready to live the longest Christian life and testimony among them. There is no incident which so demonstrates their invincible faith in Jesus. It is the paradox of the Christian life that he who aims at reward loses it, and he who forgets reward finds it. They said, "Lord, if we could just see." The Campus Martius was the grand field in which they were disciplined: there, they accustomed themselves to leaping, running, wrestling, bearing burdens, fencing, throwing the javelin, c., and when, through these violent exercises, they were all besmeared with dust and sweat, in order to refresh themselves, they swam twice or thrice across the Tyber! 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. He was not taken by surprise; He knew it from the beginning Man's implacable hatred is brought about most manifestly in the ways and spirit of His rejectors. But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius. 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. 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.]. Grace forms the hearts of those that understand it, according to the great manifestation of what God is, and what man is, too, given us in the person of Christ. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible God's generosity will not succumb to human jealousy. It is best understood as a parable about grace and reward. To the proud inhabitant of Jerusalem, both one and the other were but a choice and change within a land of darkness. Jesus came to give his life a ransom for many. The common call is promiscuous, to come and work in the vineyard; but the effectual call is particular, and it is then effectual when we come at the call. (3.) Jesus instructs His little band that discipleship is never designed as a quid pro quo formula of compensation. get to know the Bible better! And they said unto him, Lord, we want our eyes opened. Minor Prophets The Lord hints at what the man's real desires were not Christ, not heaven, not eternity, but present things. 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. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. Having left Nazareth, as we saw, He takes up His abode in Capernaum, which was henceforth "His own city." Our Lord then answers, with perfect dignity, as well as grace; He puts before the disciples of John the real state of the case; He furnishes them with plain, positive facts, that could leave nothing to be desired by John's mind when he weighed all as a testimony from God. Taken together, the entire picture is one of great suffering. 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 simple meaning seems to be: As those who did not come at the invitation of the householder to work in the vineyard did not receive the denarius, or wages, so those who do not obey the call of the Gospel, and believe in Christ Jesus, shall not inherit eternal life. Jesus was moved with compassion to the depths of his being, and touched their eyes; and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him. The call to serve God is the gift of His grace. Cecil Northcott in Famous Life Decisions tens of what Kagawa did. There is no greater mistake than to suppose, because there is the richest development of God's grace in new things, that He abandons or weakens natural relationships and authority in their place. Matthew 20:16-20 NIV - "So the last will be first, and the - Bible Gateway In immediate juxtaposition to this stands the Gentile centurion, who seeks healing for his servant. But that they might not be carried away by ambition or vain confidence in themselves, it was necessary also to remind them that others, who would long afterwards be called, would be partakers of the same glory, because God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit. But the parable may be applied more generally, and shows us, 1. I love that family strength among them. I. And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. "That ye may know it (then saith He to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house." To the end the events are put together, just as in Matthew 8:1-34, without regard to the point of time when they occurred. Matthew 20 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Here we see the worldly ambition of the disciples in action. Saul saw that David prospered, and he eyed him,1 Samuel 18:9; 1 Samuel 18:15. He came to occupy not a throne, but a cross. Heartlight Provides Positive Resources for Daily Christian Living. 16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! So the last shall be first, and the first last. Thus, in the chapter before us, we have a very comprehensive sketch of the Lord's manifestation from that time, and in type going on to the end of the age. Inattention to this has perplexed many. The people whose hearts are yielded to him will be recognized as his children no matter their rank or riches by worldly standards. Yes, it was His to rule and command the sea, even as the land and all that in them is. Workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). is a series of one-year devotional guides through each gospel, using one short scripture passage each day and following the Gospel in sequential order. (Matthew 20:32-34) Jesus heals the two blind men. Can I not do what I like with my own money? The devil was tricked by God. They confess their faith, and He touches their eyes. The point of the parable was that God will graciously do more for some of those who work for Him than His justice demands. What do you want Me to do for you? Such was and is man. Nevertheless, when there was the display of the glory of the kingdom, the Father's voice proclaimed Him as His own Son, and not merely as the man thus exalted. Any worker was welcome, even if he could give only an hour to the work. (Barclay). Jesus of course was talking about His crucifixion and His death. of their own children, or of strangers?" 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. Didst not thou agree to take God's word for it? NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. He was tricked by the seeming helplessness of Jesus; he took Jesus to be a mere man; he tried to retain hold of Jesus, and in trying to do so, he lost his power and was broken for ever. The highest creature must go away into nothing, if he must go away with that only which is his own: but if we understand it of that which is ours by gift, the free gift of God, it teaches us to be content with such things as we have. Prophets It begins with a well-known scene but then introduces surprising elements to make a powerful point. Clarke's Commentary. He had been there before. He answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. A man is not a Christian if his first concern is pay. Jesus gave everything to bring men back to God; and we must walk in the steps of him who loved to the uttermost. This, of course, is not the moment to unfold it. We have here. After the creation of consuls, they every year named twenty-four military tribunes, part of whom must have served five years at least, and the rest eleven. 2. Prophets Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 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. Oh, what a heart is ours! What was that cup? If, amid the multitude of Christians, I choose to signalize such men as Paul, and Martyn, and Brainerd, and Spencer, and Summerfield - to appoint some of them to short labor but to wide usefulness, and raise them to signal rewards, I injure not the great multitude of others who live long lives less useful and less rewarded. 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 when the evening was come, and the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. But in the case of those who were engaged later, there is no word of contract; all they wanted was the chance to work and they willingly left the reward to the master. ", 'The Lord Is My Savior, Shield, Refuge, and Stronghold'. He didn't come that people might cater to Him and minister to Him, He came to minister to the people's needs. No doubt the ship was covered with the waves; but how could that imperil the Lord of all? Pentateuch It often happens that we are easily discouraged from seeking the presence of God. Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? These are the words of an older gentleman who trusted Christ a few days before he died from cancer. He is also the writer of many of the letters that you find in your New Testament.". Therefore He could not have any broken bones. The leper approaches the Lord with homage, but with a most inadequate belief in His love and readiness to meet his need. This made it to be plainly and only a difficulty for God to solve. Matthew 20:16 - KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE What are they hired to do? In this we have another striking illustration of the same principle, because this miracle, in point of fact, was wrought long before the healing of the centurion's servant, or even of the leper. Luke-Acts He speaks of Israel then, and of Israel before He comes in glory, but He entirely omits any notice of the circumstances which were to come in by the way. "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased." John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Out of the market-place, where, till they are hired into God's service, they stand idle (Matthew 20:3; Matthew 20:3), all the day idle (Matthew 20:6; Matthew 20:6). At its close we see the leper approaching the Lord, after He had been preaching throughout Galilee and casting out devils. Ministers call them into the vineyard, to do their work; death calls them out of the vineyard, to receive their penny: and those to whom the call into the vineyard is effectual, the call out of it will be joyful. So the last shall be first, and the first last As he had asserted in ( Matthew 19:30 ) and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it may be applied to Jews or Gentiles, or to nominal and real Christians: for many be called; externally, under the ministration of the Gospel, as the Jews in general were, by Christ and his apostles; but, few chosen; in Christ from all eternity, both to grace and glory; and in consequence, and as an evidence of it, but few among the Jews; as also in the Gentile world, comparatively speaking: and even but a few of those that are outwardly called, are inwardly and effectually called by the powerful grace of God, out of darkness into marvellous light, into the grace and liberty of the Gospel, into communion with Christ, and to the obtaining his kingdom and glory, according to the eternal purpose of God. 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. Follow Christ's journey to the Cross. It does not seem exactly as a pictorial view of what the Lord was doing, or going to do, but rather the repeated pledge, that they were not to suppose that the evil He had judged in the elders of Jerusalem, or the grace freely going out to the Gentiles, in any way led Him. "Lord, save us; we perish," cried they, as they awoke Him; and He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. [3.] Matthew 20. How little they had learnt the divine lesson of grace, not ordinances! Beracot, fol. So He meekly retires, healing, yet forbidding it to be blazed abroad. Would he go back on his point of no return? Little faith leaves us as fearful for ourselves as dim witnesses of His glory whom the most unruly elements obey. The fact is, beloved brethren, there is but one Jesus; and whoever it may be, whether John the Baptist, or the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, after all it is divinely-given faith which alone sustains: else man has to learn painfully somewhat of himself; and what is he to be accounted of? It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai F4. If we turn toMark 1:1-45; Mark 1:1-45, the proof of what I have said will appear as to the leper. "The parable is emphasizing a right attitude in service." It is easy to condemn the disciples, but the faith and the loyalty which lay behind the ambition must never be forgotten. 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. 3 He went out about nine o'clock . A daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage. 1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 2:26). This parable is not a perfect illustration of Gods grace, because the principle of working and deserving is involved. Still further, here is demonstrated the unshakable loyalty of the disciples. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. 13. By His stripes ye are healed, spiritually, yes, but I do not think that it can be limited to spiritual only, the whole context, and especially Matthew eight would extend it also to physical healing. a. on the spot or they will never be taken. Yet He confidently announced to His disciples that this would happen. Not that His own rejection was not before His spirit, but here He looks not beyond that land and people; and, as far as the twelve were concerned, He sends them on a mission which goes on to the end of the an. The grand lesson is that men do not deserve or merit salvation. Whence they are hired? He is the Lord of the harvest. Observe. THE LORDSHIP OF THE CROSS ( Matthew 20:20-28 continued). He said to them, 'Go you also into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' The point is that God rewards on the principle of grace, and we should therefore expect surprises. And I do believe that in communion there should always be healing services, where people as they take the broken bread and remember the suffering of Jesus Christ, by faith receive the result of that suffering; the purpose for which God allowed Him to be suffered, and receive healing and strength in your body. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father." Then the pitiable condition of the disciples at the foot of the hill, where Satan reigned in fallen ruined man, is tested by the fact, that notwithstanding all the glory of Jesus, Son of God and Son of man, the disciples rendered it evident that they knew not how to bring His grace into action for others; yet was it precisely their place and proper function here below.
