Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

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 Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
³ And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
⁴ and said to them, ’You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ’Why have you been standing here idle all day?’
⁷ They said to him, ’Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ’You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’
⁸ So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ’Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’
⁹ And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.
¹⁰ But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius.
¹¹ And when they had received it, they complained against the landowner,