NSB(i)
1 »The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 »He made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day. Then he sent them into his vineyard.
3 »He went out the third hour and saw others in the marketplace doing nothing.«
4 »He said to them: ‘Go to the vineyard with the others. I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went to work.
5 »He went out the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same.
6 »The eleventh hour, he saw others doing nothing. He asked: ‘Why are you here all the day doing nothing?’
7 »They said: ‘No man has given us work.’ He told them to go work with the rest in the vineyard.
8 »When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: ‘Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.’