World English Bible
Matthew 20:16
“So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Verse in context — Matthew 20
14
Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
15
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?
16
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.
17
As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
18
Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
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Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.
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