Matthew 20:8-15 ▼

8 |When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, 'Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

9 Those who were hired at five o'clock came, and each received a denarius.

10 |When the first came, they thought they would receive more, but each received a denarius as well.

11 When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner,

12 These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'

13 |But he told one of them, 'Friend, I'm not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn't you?

14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man as much as I gave you.

15 I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'