And about the eleventh hour he went out and[a] found others standing there and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go also into the vineyard.’ And when[b] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their[c] wages, beginning from the last up to the first.’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:6 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went out”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 20:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came”)
  3. Matthew 20:8 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun