1. "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
2. When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place;
4. and to those he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went.
5. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing.