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Matt. 20:1 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

thus setting forth the mystery of these Aeons. They maintain also, that these thirty Aeons are most plainly indicated in the parable[14]

Matt. 20:1 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

Also by the parable of the workmen who were sent into the vineyard at different periods of the day, one and the same God is declared[590]

Matt. 20:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Monogamy

having laboured for the "one penny "[85]

Matt. 20:2 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book I

"The God of gods hath spoken, and called the earth." Now God, according to the Gospel,[152]

Matt. 20:5 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

) of the law was limited in power, they will find in our dispensation, that "many are called, but few chosen; "[184]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Barnabas

Let us beware lest we be found [fulfilling that saying], as it is written, "Many are called, but few are chosen."[37]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Barnabas

the last like the first."[72]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

For this reason did the Lord declare that the first should in truth be last, and the last first.[444]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

disobedience of a vast number of them, do allege that there was indeed one God of these men, and that He was the maker of the world, and existed in a state of degeneracy; but that there was another Father declared by Christ, and that this Being is He who has been conceived by the mind of each of them; not understanding that as, in the former case, God showed Himself not well pleased in many stances towards those who sinned, so also in the latter, "many are called, but few are chosen."[391]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

"Many rod-bearers there are, but few Bacchi," according to Plato. "For many are called, but few chosen."[43]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

and "the first shall," as He shows, "be last; "[25]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

[161]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

He said that he who did the will of the Father was "the last."[49]

Matt. 20:16 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily VIII

`But many, 'said He also, `are called, but few chosen.'[7]

Matt. 20:20 - NIV, NAB - in Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

drew near unto Him the mother of Zebedee's children, with her sons, worshipping, and seeking a certain thing from Him."[119]

Matt. 20:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Scorpiace

teness, and the name unknown ( to every man save him that receiveth it); now power to rule with a rod of iron, and the brightness of the morning star; now the being clothed in white raiment, and not having the name blotted out of the book of life, and being made in the temple of God a pillar with the inscription on it of the name of God and of the Lord, and of the heavenly Jerusalem; now a sitting with the Lord on His throne,-which once was persistently refused to the sons of Zebedee.[86]

Matt. 20:21 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth

" "Why, then, sir," I said, "do all these trees bear fruit, and some of them fairer than the rest? ""Listen," he said: "all who once suffered for the name of the Lord are honourable before God; and of all these the sins were remitted, because they suffered for the name of the Son of God.[46]

Matt. 20:21 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

For He who placed some "on the right hand, and others on the left,"[163]

Matt. 20:21 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII

This Gnostic, to speak compendiously, makes up for the absence of the apostles, by the rectitude of his life, the accuracy of his knowledge, by benefiting his relations, by "removing the mountains" of his neighbours, and putting away the irregularities of their soul. Although each of us is his[116]

Matt. 20:22 - NIV, NAB - in Martyrdom of Polycarp

or sacrifice, and prepared to be an acceptable burnt-offering unto God, looked up to heaven, and said, "O Lord God Almighty, the Father of thy beloved and blessed Son Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the knowledge of Thee, the God of angels and powers, and of every creature, and of the whole race of the righteous who live before thee, I give Thee thanks that Thou hast counted me, worthy of this day and this hour, that I should have a part in the number of Thy martyrs, in the cup[37]

Matt. 20:22 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

You see another kind of food which, similarly with milk, represents figuratively the will of God. Besides, also, the completion of His own passion He called catachrestically "a cup,"[95]

Matt. 20:23 - NIV, NAB - in Fragments of Papias

for all things belong to God, who supplies all with a suitable dwelling-place, even as His word says, that a share is given to all by the Father,[18]

Matt. 20:23 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Eighth

And they who gave in their branches green and cracked were always faithful and good, though emulous of each other about the foremost places, and about fame:[25]

Matt. 20:23 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

But it is worth while considering whether the sitting on the right hand and on the left band of the Saviour in His kingdom refers to them, so that the words, "But for whom it is prepared," were[202]

Matt. 20:25 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VII

"The princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them,"[43]

Matt. 20:25 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

but as a gentle shepherd, "gathering the lambs into thy bosom, and gently leading those which are with young."[115]

Matt. 20:26 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III

For says He: "He that will be great among you, let him be your minister; and he that will be first among you, let him be your servant."[60]

Matt. 20:27 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book IV

Celsus says further, that we assert that "all things have been arranged so as to be subject to us," having perhaps heard some of the intelligent among us speaking to that effect, and perhaps also not understanding the saying, that "he who is the greatest amongst us is the servant of all."[129]

Matt. 20:28 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

or lovers of money, but temperate in all things, compassionate, industrious, walking according to the truth of the Lord, who was the servant[32]

Matt. 20:28 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

Such is our Instructor, righteously good. "I came not," He says, "to be ministered unto, but to minister."[224]

Matt. 20:28 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

because toiling for us, and promising "to give His life a ransom for many."[226]

Matt. 20:28 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III

Let every one therefore know his proper place, and discharge it diligently with one consent, with one mind, as knowing the reward of their ministration; but let them not be ashamed to minister to those that are in want, as even our" Lord Jesus Christ came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many."[58]

Matt. 20:28 - NIV, NAB - in The Second Epistle of Pope Callistus

his position, and what he does in this manner shall be held null and void; but whatever it may be necessary to do or to arrange with regard to the cases of the body of provincial bishops, and the necessities of their churches and clergy and laity, this should be done by consent of all the pontiffs of the same province, and that too without any pride of lordship, but with the most humble and harmonious action, even as the Lord says: "I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister."[6]

Matt. 20:30 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

Now bring together from the Gospels those who call Him Son of David, as she, and the blind men in Jericho;[162]

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