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Matthew 20:16
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.
Matthew 20:16 · Webster Bible
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Matthew 20:16 in other translations
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
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In context
13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?
14 Take [that] which [is] thine, and depart: I will give to this last, even as to thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? is thy eye evil because I am good?
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.
17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said to them,
18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
19 And will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify [him]: and the third day he will rise again.
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