Matthew 20:2-14

2And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

3When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

4He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

5So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

6And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

7They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

8When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

9When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay.

10And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

11When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,

12saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

13And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?

14Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.