Matthew 20:1–9

¹“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.↗

²When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.↗

³He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.↗

⁴He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.↗

⁵Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.↗

⁶About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’↗

⁷“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’↗

⁸“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’↗

⁹“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.↗