Matthew 20:15
13 But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
14 Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- KJV
- Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
- WEB
- 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?’
- ASV
- Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
- DARBY
- is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good?
- BLB
- Or is it not lawful for me to do what I want with what [is] mine? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’
- ÅB
- Eller har jeg ikke lov til å gjøre hva jeg vil med det som er mitt? Eller er du sjalu fordi jeg er generøs?’
- OTB
- Har jeg ikke lov til å gjøre hva jeg vil med mine egne penger? Eller er ditt øye misunnelig fordi jeg er generøs?'
- B1930
- Eller har jeg ikke lov til å gjøre med mitt hvad jeg vil? eller er ditt øie ondt fordi jeg er god?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 9:15–24
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:9
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Read in contextMark 7:22
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Read in contextExodus 33:19
“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Read in contextMatthew 6:23
But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Read in contextJonah 4:1–4
Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
Read in contextJohn 17:2
For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:6–8
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Read in context