1“For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.2When he had agreed with the workers for a de‧nar′i‧us a day, he sent them forth into his vineyard.3Going out also about the third hour, he saw others standing unemployed in the marketplace;4and to those he said, ‘YOU also, go into the vineyard, and whatever is just I will give YOU.’5So off they went. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour and did likewise.6Finally, about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, ‘Why have YOU been standing here all day unemployed?’7They said to him, ‘Because nobody has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘YOU too go into the vineyard.’ 8“When it became evening, the master of the vineyard said to his man in charge, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, proceeding from the last to the first.’9When the eleventh‐hour men came, they each received a de‧nar′i‧us.10So, when the first came, they concluded they would receive more; but they also received pay at the rate of a de‧nar′i‧us.11On receiving it they began to murmur against the householder12and said, ‘These last put in one hour’s work; still you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’13But in reply to one of them he said, ‘Fellow, I do you no wrong. You agreed with me for a de‧nar′i‧us, did you not?14Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last one the same as to you.15Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own things? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?’16In this way the last ones will be first, and the first ones last.” Matthew 20:1-16
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