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The Workers Are Few
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
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Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
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Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
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no bag for the journey or extra shirt or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worth his keep.
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He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
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and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
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The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
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He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’
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“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
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“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
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“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.
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‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
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“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius?
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The Parable of the Two Sons
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
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The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more.
