He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:2 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer.

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