Matthew 20:8-15 ▼

8 "And, evening having come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, 'Call the laborers, and pay them the wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

9 "And those who were hired about the eleventh hour, coming, received, each, a denary.

10 And the first, coming, supposed that they would receive more; and they also received, each, a denary.

11 And, having received it , they murmured against the householder,

12 saying, 'These last wrought but one hour, and you made them equal with us, who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

13 "But he, answering, said to one of them, 'Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denary?

14 Take up your own, and go. But I will to give to the last even as to you:

15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'