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New Living Translation (NLT)

Matthew 20
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,
¹² ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
¹³ “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
¹⁴ Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
¹⁵ Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’