and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Matthew 20:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleA penny - A Roman coin, as noted before, Matthew 18:28, worth about seven-pence halfpenny or seven-pence three farthings of our money, and equal to the Greek drachma. This appears to have been the ordinary price of a day's labor at that time. See Tobit 5:14. In 1351 the price of labor was regulated in this country by parliament; and it is remarkable that "corn-weeders and hay-makers, without meat, drink, or other courtesy demanded," were to have one penny per day! In 1314 the pay of a chaplain to the Scotch bishops, who were then prisoners in England, was three halfpence per day. See Fleetwood's Chronicon Precios, p. 123, 129. This was miserable wages, though things at that time were so cheap that twenty-four eggs were sold for a penny, p. 72; a pair of shoes for four-pence, p. 71; a fat goose for two-pence halfpenny, p. 72; a hen for a penny, p. 72; eight bushels of wheat for two shillings, and a fat ox for six shillings and eight-pence! Ibid. In 1336, wheat per quarter, 2s.; a fat sheep 6d.; fat goose, 2d. and a pig, 1d., p. 75.
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he had.
Matthew 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you agree with me for a penny?
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people...
Deuteronomy 5:27-30 Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak you to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you...
a penny. 'The Roman penny is the eighth part of an ounce, which after five shillings the ounce is sevenpence halfpenny.'
Matthew 18:28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him...
Matthew 22:19 Show me the tribute money. And they brought to him a penny.
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Luke 10:35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him...
Revelation 6:6 And I heard a voice in the middle of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny...
he sent.
1 Samuel 2:18,26 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod...
1 Samuel 3:1,21 And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision...
1 Samuel 16:11,12 And Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep...
1 Kings 3:6-11 And Solomon said, You have showed to your servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before you in truth...
1 Kings 18:12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not...
2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father...
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say...
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink...
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures...
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