Matthew 19:30

19:30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Matthew 20:16

20:16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Matthew 5:26

5:26 I tell you the truth, 1  you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny! 2 

Matthew 20:14

20:14 Take what is yours and go. I 3  want to give to this last man 4  the same as I gave to you.

Matthew 20:12

20:12 saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:8

20:8 When 5  it was evening 6  the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay 7  starting with the last hired until the first.’

Matthew 27:64

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body 8  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

Matthew 12:45

12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so 9  the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

1 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

2 tn Here the English word “penny” is used as opposed to the parallel in Luke 12:59 where “cent” appears since the Greek word there is different and refers to a different but similar coin.

1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

2 tn Grk “this last one,” translated as “this last man” because field laborers in 1st century Palestine were men.

1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

2 sn That is, six o’clock in the evening, the hour to pay day laborers. See Lev 19:13b.

3 tc ‡ Most witnesses (including B D W Θ Ë1,13 33vid Ï latt sy) have αὐτοῖς (autois, “to them”) after ἀπόδος (apodos, “give the pay”), but this seems to be a motivated reading, clarifying the indirect object. The omission is supported by א C L Z 085 Or. Nevertheless, NA27 includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.

1 tn Grk “him.”

1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.