1. “For the reign of the heavens is like a man, a householder who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2. “And when he had agreed with the workers for a silver piece a 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 said to them, ‘You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I shall give you.’ And they went.
5. “Having gone out again about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise.