web - Matthew:20:1-16

web@Matthew:20:1 @ "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

web@Matthew:20:2 @ When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius {A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 125th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

web@Matthew:20:3 @ He went out about the third hour, {Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about strkjv@9:00 AM.} and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

web@Matthew:20:4 @ To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

web@Matthew:20:5 @ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, {noon and strkjv@3:00 P. M.} and did likewise.

web@Matthew:20:6 @ About the eleventh hour {5:00 PM} he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

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

web@Matthew:20:8 @ When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

web@Matthew:20:9 @ "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

web@Matthew:20:10 @ When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

web@Matthew:20:11 @ When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

web@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

web@Matthew:20:13 @ "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?

web@Matthew:20:14 @ Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

web@Matthew:20:15 @ Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

web@Matthew:20:16 @ So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."