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Matthew 20 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Workers
1 THE Kingdom of Heaven is like to a man that is an householder which went forth early in the morning to hire workmen into his vineyard.
2 And having made covenant with the workmen for a peny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And going forth about the third hour, he saw other standing in the market place idle,
4 and he said to them: Go you also into the vineyard, and that which shall be just, I will give you.
5 And they went their way. And again he went forth about the sixth & the ninth hour: and did likewise.
6 But about the eleventh hour he went forth and found other standing, & he saith to them: What stand you here all the day idle?
7 They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into the vineyard.
8 And when evening was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith to his bailiff, Call the workmen, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.
9 Therefore when they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every one a peny.
10 But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every one a peny.
11 And receiving it they murmured against the good-man of the house.
12 Saying: These last have continued one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day & the heats.
13 But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not covenant with me for a peny?
14 Take that is thine, and go: I will also give to this last even as to thee also.
15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do that I will? Is thine eye naught, because I am good?
16 So shall the last be first, and the first, last. For many be called, but few elect.
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