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

Matthew 19:30

Bible > NIV > Matthew 19 > Verse 30

◄ Matthew 19:30 ►

New International Version (© 2011)
But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

King James Bible
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

American Standard Version
But many shall be last that are first; and first that are last.

Young's Literal Translation
and many first shall be last, and last first.

Matthew 19:30 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

But many that are first, etc. - The Jews, who have been the first and most distinguished people of God, will in general reject the Gospel of my grace, and be consequently rejected by me. The Gentiles, who have had no name among the living, shall be brought to the knowledge of the truth, and become the first, the chief, and most exalted people of God. That this prediction of our Lord has been literally fulfilled, the present state of the Christian and Jewish Churches sufficiently proves. To illustrate this fully, and to demonstrate that the Jews and Gentiles were now put on an equal footing by the Gospel, our Lord speaks the following parable, which has been unhappily divided from its connection by making it the beginning of a new chapter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 8:11,12 And I say to you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob...

Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Matthew 21:31,32 Whether of them two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you...

Mark 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

Luke 7:29,30 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John...

Luke 13:30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

Luke 18:13,14 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying...

Romans 5:20,21 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound...

Romans 9:30-33 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness...

Galatians 5:7 You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?

Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.