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New Living Translation (NLT)

Matthew 20
¹ “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
² He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
³ “At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.
⁴ So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
⁵ So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
⁶ “At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
⁷ “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
⁸ “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
⁹ When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
¹⁰ When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
¹¹ When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,