King James Version (KJV)

Matthew 20:15

“‹Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?›”

Verse in context — Matthew 20

‹But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?›

‹Take› [that] ‹thine› [is], ‹and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.›

‹Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?›

‹So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.›

And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.