And about the [a]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?’ They *said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He *said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’

“When (A)evening came, the [b]owner of the vineyard *said to his (B)foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:6 I.e. 5 p.m.
  2. Matthew 20:8 Or lord