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.
6. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'