Matthew 20:8-15 ▼

8 “Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.

10 And when those hired first came, they supposed that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.

11 Now when they received it, they were grumbling at the landowner,

12 saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

13 But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

14 Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you.

15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’