7. “They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’“The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
8. “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
9. When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
10. When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
11. When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
12. ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
13. “He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?