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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Matthew 19
³⁰ But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.
Matthew 20
¹ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
² When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
³ And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
⁴ and to those he said, ’You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ And so they went.
⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.
⁶ And about the 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?’
⁷ They *said to him, ’Because no one hired us.’ He *said to them, ’You go into the vineyard too.’
⁸ "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ’Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’
⁹ When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
¹⁰ When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.