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"Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’"
— Matthew 20:15, NET Bible
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good? ”
“Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'”
“Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?”
“Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?”
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”
saying,‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’
And the landowner replied to one of them,‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?
Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.
Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
So the last will be first, and the first last.”
Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,
“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,