Matthew 20:14-15

20:14 Take what is yours and go. I ¹  want to give to this last man ²  the same as I gave to you. 20:15 Am I not ³  permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ ⁴ 

---

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.

³ tc ‡ Before οὐκ (ouk, “[am I] not”) a number of significant witnesses read ἤ (h, “or”; e.g., א C W 085 Ë^1,13 33 and most others). Although in later Greek the οι in σοι (oi in soi) – the last word of v. 14 – would have been pronounced like ἤ, since ἤ is lacking in early mss (B D; among later witnesses, note L Z Θ 700) and since mss were probably copied predominantly by sight rather than by sound, even into the later centuries, the omission of ἤ cannot be accounted for as easily. Thus the shorter reading is most likely original. NA²⁷ includes the word in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.

⁴ tn Grk “Is your eye evil because I am good?”