Matthew:20:1-16
rsv@Matthew:20:1 @ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
rsv@Matthew:20:2 @ After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
rsv@Matthew:20:3 @ And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;
rsv@Matthew:20:4 @ and to them he said, `You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went.
rsv@Matthew:20:5 @ Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
rsv@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, `Why do you stand here idle all day?'
rsv@Matthew:20:7 @ They said to him, `Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.'
rsv@Matthew:20:8 @ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, `Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'
rsv@Matthew:20:9 @ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.
rsv@Matthew:20:10 @ Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
rsv@Matthew:20:11 @ And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,
rsv@Matthew:20:12 @ saying, `These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
rsv@Matthew:20:13 @ But he replied to one of them, `Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
rsv@Matthew:20:14 @ Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you.
rsv@Matthew:20:15 @ Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'
rsv@Matthew:20:16 @ So the last will be first, and the first last."
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