Worsley(i)
1 For the gospel-kingdom is like the master of a family, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard:
2 and agreeing with the men for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard:
3 and going out about the third hour he saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing,
4 and said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and what is reasonable I will give you: so they went.
5 And going out again about the sixth and ninth hour he did in like manner.
6 And going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing without work, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day doing nothing?
7 They say unto him, because no one hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is reasonable ye shall receive.
8 Now when evening was come, the owner of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the work-men and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.
9 And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every one a penny:
10 but when the first came, they thought that they should receive more; and they also received every one a penny.
11 And after they had received it they murmured against the master of the house,
12 saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burthen and heat of the day.
13 But he answered, and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14 Take what is thine, and be gone: it is my pleasure to give to this last as I do to thee;
15 and may I not do what I will with my own?