3 Week Challenge, Day 20

Passage: Matthew 20 (The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Jesus Again Predicts His Death, A Mother's Request, Two Blind Men Receive Sight)

Memory Verse: "3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort others in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God" -2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Notes: (v.1-16) The Parable of the Workers in a Vineyard:

-The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard

-he went the third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh our, each time agreeing to pay the workers one denarii

-at the end of the day, he paid the workers hired at the eleventh our first, and gave them one denarii: the same amount as those who worked from the first hour

-when the others saw this, they grumbled and complain about being equal to those who have only worked one hour

-The landowner answered, "Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"

-(v.16) So the last will be first, and the first will be last

-[Wow, that's a humbling story!]

-(v.17-19) Jesus predicts that the Son of Man will be betrayed and condemned to death. The Gentiles will flog and crucify him, but he will be raised to life on the third day.

-(v.20-21) The mother of Zebedee's sons asked Jesus that one of her sons sit at Jesus' right hand and the other at his left in the kingdom

-(v.22-23) Jesus rebukes her and says that those places "belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father'

-(v.26-28) Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever wants to be first must be your slave--28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many"