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8 When the evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers, and, beginning with the last, pay them their hire even to the first. 9 And when those came who had been hired about the eleventh hour, they received each one a denarius. 10 But when those came who had been hired first, they thought that they would receive more; and they received each one a denarius. 11 And when they received it, they murmured against the master of the house, 12 saying: These last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day, and the heat. 13 But he answered and said to one of them: Friend, I do you no in justice; did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what is yours, and go; I will give to this last even as to you. 15 Is it not allowed me to do what I will with my own? Or, is your eye envious, because I am good? Matthew 20:8-15, Anderson New Testament. Public domain.
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