Matthew 20:1-12 ▼

1 For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a landlord man, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

2 And having agreed with the laborers for a denarion per day, sent them into his vineyard.

3 And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the forum:

4 and he said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they departed.

5 Again having gone out about the sixth and ninth hours, he did likewise.

6 And about the eleventh hour having gone out, he found others standing; and says to them, Why stand ye here idle all the day?

7 They say to him, Because no one hired us. He says to them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

8 And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last even unto the first.

9 And those having come about the eleventh hour, received each man a denarion.

10 But the first having come supposed that they shall receive more; and themselves also received each one a denarion.

11 But receiving it, they murmured against the landlord,

12 saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.