Then about five[a] he went and found others standing around[b] and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’

“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.

“‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he told them.[c] When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay,(A) starting with the last and ending with the first.’

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Footnotes

  1. 20:6 Lit about the eleventh hour, also in v. 9
  2. 20:6 Other mss add doing nothing
  3. 20:7 Other mss add ‘and you’ll get whatever is right.’

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