emtv - Matthew:20:1-16

emtv@Matthew:20:1 @ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a certain landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

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

emtv@Matthew:20:3 @ And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

emtv@Matthew:20:4 @ And said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever may be right I will give you.' So they went.

emtv@Matthew:20:5 @ Again going out about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise.

emtv@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the eleventh hour, going out he found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?'

emtv@Matthew:20:7 @ "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive.'

emtv@Matthew:20:8 @ "So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.'

emtv@Matthew:20:9 @ "And when those came [who were hired] about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

emtv@Matthew:20:10 @ But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they also received each a denarius.

emtv@Matthew:20:11 @ And when they had received it, they began grumbling against the landowner,

emtv@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, 'These last [men] have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.'

emtv@Matthew:20:13 @ "But he answered one of them and said, 'Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

emtv@Matthew:20:14 @ Take what is yours and go. But I want to give to this last [man] the same as to you.

emtv@Matthew:20:15 @ Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own [things]? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'

emtv@Matthew:20:16 @ "Thus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few [are ]chosen."