They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go also into the vineyard.’ And when[a] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their[b] wages, beginning from the last up to the first.’ And when the ones hired about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came”)
  2. Matthew 20:8 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun