en_tn_condensed/mat/20/15.md

# Connecting Statement:

Jesus concludes his parable about a landowner who hires workers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parables]])

# Is it not lawful for me to do as I want with what belongs to me?

The landowner uses a question to correct the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "It is lawful for me do what I want with my own possessions." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])

# Is it not lawful for me

"Do I not have the right" or "Is it not proper." The landowner is reminding the laborers that everyone allows people to do what they wish with their own property. He is not asking if there is a law against what he is doing.

# Or is your eye evil because I am good?

The landowner uses a question to rebuke the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "Your eye should not be evil because I am good." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])

# is your eye evil

A person with an "eye" that is "evil" looks angrily at those whom he envies and so hates. The "evil" here is envy. Alternate translation: "are you envious" or "do you hate me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])

# I am good

In the context here, the reader should understand the landowner being "good" as "generous," the opposite of the laborers being "evil," which is "envious."
initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# Connecting Statement:`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`Jesus concludes his parable about a landowner who hires workers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parables]])`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00			`# Is it not lawful for me to do as I want with what belongs to me?`
Initial commit of translationNotes 2016-02-23 02:42:46 +00:00
Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`The landowner uses a question to correct the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "It is lawful for me do what I want with my own possessions." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])`
added v1 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00			`# Is it not lawful for me`
added v1 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00			`"Do I not have the right" or "Is it not proper." The landowner is reminding the laborers that everyone allows people to do what they wish with their own property. He is not asking if there is a law against what he is doing.`

From work on PDF Matt 21-23 2019-01-03 20:38:36 +00:00			`# Or is your eye evil because I am good?`
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00
Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`The landowner uses a question to rebuke the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "Your eye should not be evil because I am good." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])`
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00
			`# is your eye evil`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`A person with an "eye" that is "evil" looks angrily at those whom he envies and so hates. The "evil" here is envy. Alternate translation: "are you envious" or "do you hate me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])`
From work on PDF Matt 19-20 2019-01-03 13:57:27 +00:00
			`# I am good`

			`In the context here, the reader should understand the landowner being "good" as "generous," the opposite of the laborers being "evil," which is "envious."`
added v1 tn converted to an rc 2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00