dby - Matthew:20:1-16

dby@Matthew:20:1 @ For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.

dby@Matthew:20:2 @ And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

dby@Matthew:20:3 @ And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;

dby@Matthew:20:4 @ and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.

dby@Matthew:20:5 @ Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.

dby@Matthew:20:6 @ But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

dby@Matthew:20:7 @ They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].

dby@Matthew:20:8 @ But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

dby@Matthew:20:9 @ And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

dby@Matthew:20:10 @ And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.

dby@Matthew:20:11 @ And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

dby@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

dby@Matthew:20:13 @ But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?

dby@Matthew:20:14 @ Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:

dby@Matthew:20:15 @ is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

dby@Matthew:20:16 @ Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.