Matthew 20:2-14

2And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

3And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;

4and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.

5Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.

6But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

7They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].

8But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

9And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

10And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.

11And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

12saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

13But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?

14Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee: