6.6.09 Gn21, Mt20

Genesis 21:
At exact same time as God had said, Sarah gave birth to a son, and the whole household was in great joy. Isaac was circomcised on the eighth day of his birth as God had commanded. When Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a feast for him, but Ishmael was mocking him. Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away as Sarah wanted and God permitted. When Hagar went to desert of Beersheba, she ran out of water, and she didn't want the boy to die, so she left the boy elsewhere, but God heard the boy's cry and angels came down and told gave hagar water so they could live. When they lived in the desert of Paran, Hagar got Ishmael a wife.
At that time Abraham was living in the kindom of Abimelech, so Abimelech came and told abraham to swear that he would be as kind as Abimelech had treated him, and Abraham sweared it. However Abraham told the king his well was seized by the king's sevants, so Abraham got it back for they had a treaty there. They Abraham prayed to the Lord.

Matthew 20:
Jesus again said another parable:
A landowner asked some people to work in his vineyard from early in the morning, and agreed to pay them certain wage. They agreed, and went to work. Throughout the day, the landowner kept asking people who were doing nother to work for his vineyard, they all agreed. At the end of the day, all the workers received the same wage--as much as the ones who went earliest, and the ones who went earliest complained and thought that they deserved more. However the Landowner said that they agreed on the wage, and he, as the master of his own money, had the right to spend his money his way. The workers were just envious of his generosity. The last will come first and first last.
Landowner=God
Vineyard=God's work
Wage=rewards
Worers=people who were saved.
As they were following Jesus to Jerusalem, Jesus predicted that that's the place where he would be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. He would be condemned to death, and will rise on the third day.
A mother of two of Jesus's disciples came to Jesus and asked Him to grant her sons the right to sit on the left and right of the throne. Jesus then said that it was not his position to grant the places where they should sit. When the other ten disciples heard this, they became angry. Jesus gathered them and told them whoever wanted to be great must become small among their brothers to serve others.
As they were leaving Jericho, big crowd of people followed them and two blind men were sitting by the road and when they heard Jesus were passing by, they shouted for him. Other people told them to be quiet, but they only shouted louder. Jesus heard them and asked them what they wanted, and as cured their blindness upon their request. Then they followed Jesus.