Matthew:20:1-16
mkjv@Matthew:20:1 @ For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
mkjv@Matthew:20:2 @ And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
mkjv@Matthew:20:3 @ And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
mkjv@Matthew:20:4 @ And he said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.
mkjv@Matthew:20:5 @ And he went out about [the] sixth and ninth hour and did likewise.
mkjv@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all day idle?
mkjv@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 shall receive whatever is right.
mkjv@Matthew:20:8 @ So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them [their] wage, beginning from the last to the first.
mkjv@Matthew:20:9 @ And when they [who were hired about] the eleventh hour came, they each one received a denarius.
mkjv@Matthew:20:10 @ But when the first came, they supposed that they would received more; and they also each one received a denarius.
mkjv@Matthew:20:11 @ And receiving [it] they murmured against the master of the house,
mkjv@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, These last have worked [only] one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
mkjv@Matthew:20:13 @ But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
mkjv@Matthew:20:14 @ Take yours, and go; I will give to this last one the same as to you.
mkjv@Matthew:20:15 @ Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?
mkjv@Matthew:20:16 @ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few are chosen.
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