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Matthew 20:1

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1182; jy 226; gt 97; w89 8/15 8


    ad 776, 818; w67 43, 45; w33 339

Matthew 20:2

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/2001, p. 10

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1122, 1182; jy 226; w01 12/15 10; gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    ad 442, 776-777, 818, 1032; w66 629; w61 166; w56 653; w39 71; w38 53, 239; w36 332; w33 340

Matthew 20:3

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1182; jy 226; gt 97; w89 8/15 8


    ad 428, 818, 1114; w33 341

Matthew 20:4

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  • Publications Index

    w73 473; ad 1114; w33 341

Matthew 20:5

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1182; jy 226; gt 97; w89 8/15 8


    ad 818; w33 341

Matthew 20:6

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1182; jy 226; gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    ad 428, 818; w67 46; g66 7/8 17; w33 342

Matthew 20:7

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 226

  • Publications Index

    jy 226; gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    w67 46; w33 342

Matthew 20:8

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    20:8 Var. pay them their wages

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  • Publications Index

    it-1 1182; gt 97; w89 8/15 8


    ad 818, 1016; w67 47; w33 342, 355

Matthew 20:9

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  • Publications Index

    gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    w67 47, 49; g66 7/8 17; w61 166; w42 311; w39 71; w33 356

Matthew 20:10

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  • Research Guide

    New World Translation, p. 1794

  • Publications Index

    nwt 1794; gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    ad 1175; w67 50; w61 166; w39 71; w33 357

Matthew 20:11

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  • Publications Index

    gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    w67 50; w33 357

Matthew 20:12

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  • Publications Index

    gt 97; w89 8/15 8-9


    w33 358

Matthew 20:13

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    8/1/2010, p. 30

  • Publications Index

    w10 8/1 30


    w73 473; ad 1140; w61 166; w37 70; w33 359

Matthew 20:14

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  • Publications Index

    w73 473; w33 359

Matthew 20:15

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  • Publications Index

    it-1 790


    w73 473; ad 551, 1411; w63 200; w47 231; w33 360

Matthew 20:16

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, pp. 226-227

  • Publications Index

    jy 226-227


    w67 47; g65 5/22 28; w52 287; w33 361

Matthew 20:17

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  • *

    20:17 Var. was going up

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 228

  • Publications Index

    jy 228; gt 98; w89 9/1 8


    ad 91

Matthew 20:18

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 228

  • Publications Index

    jy 228; gt 98; w89 9/1 8


    ad 932, 1349

Matthew 20:19

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  • Publications Index

    g60 5/22 27

Matthew 20:20

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  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, pp. 228-229

    “My Follower,” p. 31

  • Publications Index

    it-1 1251; it-2 841; jy 228-229; cf 31; gt 98; w89 9/1 8; gm 89


    g79 2/22 27; ad 867, 1432-1433, 1682; is 83; g65 3/22 28; w58 665

Matthew 20:21

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, pp. 228-229

    “My Follower,” p. 31

    The Watchtower,

    8/1/2004, p. 15

  • Publications Index

    jy 228-229; cf 31; w04 8/1 15; gt 98; w89 9/1 8


    w58 665; w51 522

Matthew 20:22

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 229

  • Publications Index

    jy 229; gt 98; w89 9/1 8


    jh 115

Matthew 20:23

Footnotes
  • *

    20:23 Var. or on my left

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/1/2010, p. 14

  • Publications Index

    w10 4/1 14; rs 410


    g73 3/8 28; im 247; w53 411; w43 45; jh 115

Matthew 20:24

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 229

  • Publications Index

    jy 229; gt 98; w89 9/1 8-9


    w75 725; g64 6/22 8

Matthew 20:25

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2013, p. 28

    4/1/2006, pp. 19-20

  • Publications Index

    w13 11/15 28; w06 4/1 19-20; w93 8/1 13; w89 9/15 16-17


    w75 725; ad 932, 1261; g65 12/8 9

Matthew 20:26

Footnotes
  • *

    20:26 Var. It shall not be

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/15/2013, p. 28

    4/1/2006, pp. 19-20

    8/1/2004, pp. 15-16

  • Publications Index

    w13 11/15 28; w06 4/1 19-20; w04 8/1 15-16; w93 8/1 13; w89 9/15 16-17


    w76 165; w75 725; w73 469; w72 581; w71 456; ad 1162; w67 593; w65 278; g65 3/22 4; g65 4/8 4; g65 12/8 9; w63 142; w53 410; w44 325

Matthew 20:27

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Teacher, pp. 110-111

  • Publications Index

    lr 111; w89 9/15 16-17


    w76 165; w73 469; w72 581; w67 593; g65 3/22 4; g65 4/8 4; w53 410

Matthew 20:28

Footnotes
  • *

    20:28 Var. adds But for your part try to grow from littleness, and out of (or, reading the words in the Aramaic language as spoken by Jesus, and rather than) something greater to be something less. And when you go to a house and are invited to have dinner, do not take the prominent places at the table, for fear a man of higher standing should come on and the host should come to you and say ‘Move down lower,’ and you should be humiliated. But if you take the poorest place and a man inferior to you comes on, the host will say to you ‘Come along up higher,’ and that will be good for you

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 229

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/2014, p. 30

    8/15/2002, pp. 13-14

    3/15/2000, pp. 3-4

  • Publications Index

    it-2 736, 791-792; mwb18.03 2; jy 229; w14 7/15 30; w02 8/15 13-14; w00 3/15 3-4; w91 2/15 11-12; gt 98; w90 1/15 15; w90 3/15 3-5; w89 9/1 9; pe 61


    tr 50; yb79 5; w77 405-407; gh 118; w75 716, 721; w74 200; ts 138; w73 239-240, 243; w73 465; g73 6/8 8; g73 7/22 3-4; w72 237, 687-688; or 108; g72 10/22 14; w71 456; ad 247, 893, 923, 1399; g70 10/8 22; w68 677; w65 172; im 229; gn 12; w62 38, 477; w61 195; w60 133; w54 629; gn54 12; w53 424; nh 69; w52 106, 444; w50 367; el 217; w49 59; w47 330; w44 326; tf 251; w41 261; w39 153; s 191; w37 203; en 126

Matthew 20:29

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 230

    The Watchtower,

    5/1/2008, p. 31

  • Publications Index

    it-1 258; jy 230; w08 5/1 31; gt 99; w89 9/15 8


    ad 192, 1123; is 85; g65 3/22 28; w58 618; w56 575

Matthew 20:30

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 230

  • Publications Index

    jy 230; gt 99; w89 9/15 8; w88 2/1 5


    w77 719; ad 192; is 85; g65 3/22 28; g63 5/8 28

Matthew 20:32

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    Jesus​—The Way, p. 230

  • Publications Index

    jy 230; gt 99; w89 9/15 8

Matthew 20:33

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  • Publications Index

    w89 9/15 8

Matthew 20:34

Indexes
  • Research Guide

    “My Follower,” pp. 150-152

  • Publications Index

    it-2 376; cf 150, 152; w94 11/1 14


    w71 412; ad 1139

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Matthew 20:1-34

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20 “For the Reign of Heaven is like a proprietor who went out at six in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 And he agreed with the laborers on a denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. 3 And he went out at about nine o’clock and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and said to those ‘Go to the vineyard too, and I will give you what is right’; and they went. 5 And he went out again about twelve and three o’clock and did the same way. 6 And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing there, and said to them ‘Why are you standing idle here all day?’ 7 They said to him ‘Because nobody has hired us.’ He said to them ‘Go to the vineyard too.’ 8* And when evening came the owner of the vineyard said to his superintendent ‘Call the laborers and pay the wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.’ 9 And the five o’clock ones came and got a denarius each; 10 and the first came and supposed they would get more, and they too got the denarius each. 11 And when they got it they grumbled at the proprietor, 12 saying ‘These last did one hour, and you made them equal to us that bore the weight of the day and the scorching wind.’ 13 But he answered one of them ‘Comrade, I am not wronging you: did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 take up your money and go, but I choose to give the same to this last one as to you. 15 Is it not my right to do what I choose with my own things? or do you grudge because I am liberal?’ 16 Thus the last shall be first and the first last.”

17* And when Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve with him by themselves, and said to them on the road 18 “Here we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be put into the hands of the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death 19 and hand him over to the foreigners to outrage and flog and crucify, and on the third day he will rise.”

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, doing him reverence and asking something of him. 21 And he said to her “What do you want?” Said she to him, “Say that these two sons of mine shall sit one on your right and one on your left in your reign.” 22 But Jesus answered “You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” Said they to him, “We can.” 23* Said he to them, “Drink my cup you shall; but as to sitting on my right and on my left, this is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

24 And at hearing of it the ten were offended with the two brothers; 25 but Jesus called them to him and said “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them and their great men domineer over them. 26* It is not so among you, but anyone who wishes to be great among you shall be your serving-man, 27 and anyone who wishes to be first among you shall be your slave, 28* just as the Son of Man did not come to be waited on but to wait on the needs of others, and to give his life as ransom for many.”

29 And as they were going out of Jericho a great crowd followed him; 30 and lo, two blind men sitting by the roadside, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out “Son of David, sir, take pity on us!” 31 but the crowd rebuked them, telling them to be still. But they cried out louder “Son of David, sir, take pity on us!” 32 And Jesus stopped and called them and said “What do you want me to do for you?” 33 Said they to him, “Sir, for our eyes to be opened.” 34 And Jesus was moved with pity and touched their eyes; and at once they recovered their sight, and followed him.

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