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Matthew 20:16

World English Bible

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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Matthew 20:16 in other translations

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

Matthew 20:16 · American Standard Version

Matthew 20:16 in context

  1. 14Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
  2. 15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
  3. 16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
  4. 17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
  5. 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,