Matthew 20:16 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 20:16

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

YLT

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

DBT

Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Matthew 19:30
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Mark 10:31
But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Luke 13:28–30
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

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), in that observation which occasioned it ( ch. xix. So the first shall be last, and the last first. There were many that followed Christ now in the regeneration, when the gospel kingdom was first set up, and these Jewish converts seemed to have got the start of others; but Christ, to obviate and silence their boasting, here tells them, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But that cannot be the meaning of it here; the "called" being emphatically distinguished from the "chosen." It can only mean here the "invited." And so the sense is, Many receive the invitations of the Gospel whom God has never "chosen to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" (2Th 2:13).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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 called - All who hear the Gospel; but few chosen - Only those who obey it.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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G207852× in canon G4413152× in canon G3779208× in canon

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MAT 20:16MAT 22:14 2PE 1:10
MAT 20:16LUK 15:7 LUK 15:10
MAT 20:16LUK 15:7 LUK 5:32
MAT 20:16MAT 22:14 LUK 13:23-24
MAT 20:16MAT 22:14 REV 17:14
MAT 20:16MAT 22:14 MAT 7:13-14
MAT 20:16LUK 15:7 LUK 15:32
MAT 20:16MAT 19:30 LUK 13:30
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