Dual Panel20:2And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.
20:4He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’
20:5So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.
20:6And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’
20:7They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’
20:8When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’
20:9When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay.
20:10And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.
20:11When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,
20:12saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’
20:13And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?