6. It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the market place and saw some other men still standing there. ‘Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?’ he asked them.
7. ‘No one hired us,’ they answered. ‘Well, then, you also go and work in the vineyard,’ he told them.
8. “When evening came, the owner told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first.’
9. The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.
10. So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each.