7. They answered him, Because nobody has hired us. He told them, You go out into the vineyard also and you will get whatever is just and fair.
8. When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first. [Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:15.]
9. And those who had been hired at the eleventh hour (five o'clock) came and received a denarius each.
10. Now when the first came, they supposed they would get more, but each of them also received a denarius.
11. And when they received it, they grumbled at the owner of the estate,
12. Saying, These [men] who came last worked no more than an hour, and yet you have made them rank with us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.
13. But he answered one of them, Friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14. Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this man hired last the same as I give to you.
15. Am I not permitted to do what I choose with what is mine? [Or do you begrudge my being generous?] Is your eye evil because I am good?
16. So those who [now] are last will be first [then], and those who [now] are first will be last [then]. For many are called, but few chosen.
17. And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside along the way and said to them,
18. Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes; and they will sentence Him to death
19. And deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and whipped and crucified, and He will be raised [to life] on the third day.