King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 20:16
“‹So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 20
14
‹Take› [that] ‹thine› [is], ‹and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.›
15
‹Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?›
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‹So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.›
17
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
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‹Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,›
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