Matthew 20:1-7

Laborers in the Vineyard

“For ^athe kingdom of heaven is like ¹a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his ^bvineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a ¹denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the ¹third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace; 4 and to those he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ And so they went. 5 Again he went out about the ¹sixth and the ninth hour, and did ²the same thing. 6 And about the ¹eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’ 7 They *said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He *said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’