Matthew 16: 1-20 Scripture
Lesson Sept. 20, 2020
20:1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who
went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
20:2 After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them
into his vineyard.
20:3 When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the
marketplace;
20:4 and he said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you
whatever is right.' So they went.
20:5 When he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the
same.
20:6 And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around; and
he said to them, 'Why are you standing here idle all day?'
20:7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You
also go into the vineyard.'
20:8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call
the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to
the first.'
20:9 When those hired about five o'clock came, each of them received the usual
daily wage.
20:10 Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each
of them also received the usual daily wage.
20:11 And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,
20:12 saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to
us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
20:13 But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you
not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
20:14 Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same
as I give to you.
20:15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you
envious because I am generous?'
20:16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last."
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