Matthew 20:5-9
Matthew 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.
Matthew 20:6
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’
Matthew 20:7
They *said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He *said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
Matthew 20:8
“Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, starting with the last group to the first.’
Matthew 20:9
When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.