Matthew 20:16

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So the last shall be first ... - This is the moral or scope of the parable. “To teach this it was spoken.” Many that, in the order of time, are b...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard. It is possible (as it is necessary) to distinguish two interpretations of this splendid parable, ( a) th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

So, &c. See note on Matthew 19:30 , which precedes the parable, as this concludes it.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. So the first shall be last. He does not now compare the Jews to the Gentiles, (as in another passages) nor the reprobate, who swerve fro...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. So the last shall be first, and the first last - The Gentiles, wh...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For many are called, &c.— A proverbial expression, which, as it is here stated, imports that the Jews should all be called by the Apostles and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. So the last shall be first, and the first last: - q.d., '...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Labourers in the Vineyard. The Journey to Jerusalem 1-16, Parable of the labourers in the vineyard (peculiar to St. Matthew). This difficult p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

For many be called, but few chosen ] These words are omitted by the RV, probably rightly. If retained, they are very difficult to interpret in such...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

So the last shall be first. — This, then, is the great lesson of the parable, and it answers at once the question whether we are to see in it the d...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 15 Last Days in Peraea - Matthew 19:1-30 - Matthew 20:1-16 THERE were two main roads from Galilee to Jerusalem. One passed through Sa...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Bargaining Spirit Rebuked Matthew 20:1-16 This parable originated in Peter's question. He had seen the rich young man go away sorrowful, be...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

One great principle of rewards is laid down in this parable. It is that they will be given, not according to length or amount of service, but accordi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." See the Note on Matthew 22:14 .
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE REFORM OF THE IDLER ‘Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us.’ Matthew 20 part Matthew 20:6-7...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CALLED AND CHOSEN ‘So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many be called, but few chosen.’ Matthew 20:16 St. Peter tells us the...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So the last shall be first, and the first last ,.... As he had asserted in Matthew 19:30 and which is clearly illustrated by this parable, as it m...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Ver. 16. So the last shall be first, &c. ] This is the pu...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So the last shall be first, and the first last The Gentiles last called, and last in advantages and privileges, not having been favoured in that re...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The principle of the first and the last is now illustrated in a most penetrating parable of the kingdom of heaven. The householder goes out early in...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Labourers in the Vineyard. 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man th...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 1-16. We find this parable only recorded by St. Matthew; nor have any thing to guide us in understanding the scope of our Saviour in it, but A...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘So the last will be first, and the first last.' And thus the story tells us that because of God's goodness and graciousness, and because our spirit...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 20:1 . For , etc.—The division of the Chapter s is here singularly unfortunate, as separating the parable both from the e...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 20:1-2 . For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into hi...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 20:1-2 . For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into hi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 20:1 . A householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers for the work of his vineyard, the time, the most important tim...
The Biblical Illustrator

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard: Th...
The Biblical Illustrator

So the last shall be first, and the first last. The elect Christians It is not a question of calling, but of moving from second to first place,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 20:1-40 Parable of the labourers in the vineyard . (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) Matthew 20:1 For . The followin...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The master's answer:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many be called, but few chosen. In choosing one man out of the whole company of murmurers, the...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So the last shall be first, and the first last — Not only with regard to the Jews and Gentiles, but in a thousand other instances. For many are cal...

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 20:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 20:16