Coverdale(i)
1 The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder, which wete out early in the mornynge, to hyre labourers in to his vyniarde.
2 And wha he had agreed with the labourers for a peny a daye, he sent the in to his vynyarde.
3 And aboute ye thirde houre he wente out, and sawe other stondinge ydle in the market place,
4 and sayde vnto them: Go ye also in to my vynyarde, & what so euer is right, I wil geue it you. And they wete their waye.
5 Agayne, he wete out aboute the sixte and nyenth houre, and dyd likewyse,
6 And aboute the eleuenth houre he wete out, and founde other stodynge ydle, and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydle?
7 They sayde vnto him: because no man hath hyred us. He saide vnto the: Go ye also in to my vinyarde, and loke what is right, ye shal haue it.
8 Now whan euen was come, the lorde of the vynyarde sayde vnto his stewarde: Call the labourers, and geue them their hyre, begynnynge from the last vnto ye first.
9 Then they that were hyred aboute the eleuenth houre, came and receaued euery man a peny.
10 But whan the first came, they supposed that they shulde receaue more: and they also receaued euery man a peny.
11 And whan they had receaued it, they murmured agaynst the housholder,
12 and sayde: These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made the equall vnto us, which haue borne the burthen and heate of the daye.
13 He answered and sayde vnto one of them: frende, I do ye no wronge: diddest not thou agree with me for a peny?
14 Take that thine is, and go thy waye. I wil geue vnto this last also, like as vnto the.
15 Or haue I not power, to do as me listeth with myne owne? Is thine eye euell, because I am good?