New King James Version

Matthew 20:5-11 New King James Version (NKJV)

5. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

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

7. They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’

8. “So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’

9. And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

10. But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius.

11. And when they had received it, they complained against the landowner,