Mateus 20

1 After this Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a certain individual, who was master in his house, who arose early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard".

2 "He hired them for one dinar a day and sent them into his vineyard".

3 "He went out at the third hour of the day and saw others standing idle in the market place".

4 "He said to them: ‘Go, also you, into my vineyard and that which is suitable I will give to you’.

5 "So they went. Then he came out again at noon and also at the ninth hour and did the same".

6 "At the eleventh hour he went out also and found others standing and he said to them: ‘Why do you stand idle all day?’

7 "They answered him: ‘No man has hired us’. So he said to them: ‘Go, also, you into my vineyard’.

8 "It came to pass at evening, the master of the vineyard said to the officer over the laborers: ‘Call them that I might give to them their wages’. He began with the last and finished with the first".

9 "The last received one dinar".

10 "So the first thought they would receive more, but he gave only a dinar to each of them".

11 "Then the first murmured against the master of the vineyard

12 "saying: ‘These last worked one hour and you have made them like us who have worked all day and in the heat’.

13 "He answered one of them and said to him: ‘My friend, I have done you no injustice. Did I not hire you for one dinar?’

14 ‘Take it and go. If I wish to give this last like you’

15 ‘may I not do according to my desire? Is there evil in your eyes when I am good?’

16 "So the last shall be first and the first last. Many are called but few are chosen".