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Workers in a Vineyard
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|Mateus 20:1| As Jesus was telling what the kingdom of heaven would be like, he said:Early one morning a man went out to hire some workers for his vineyard.
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|Mateus 20:2|After he had agreed to pay them the usual amount for a day's work, he sent them off to his vineyard.
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|Mateus 20:3|About nine that morning, the man saw some other people standing in the market with nothing to do.
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|Mateus 20:4|He promised to pay them what was fair, if they would work in his vineyard.
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|Mateus 20:5|So they went. At noon and again about three in the afternoon he returned to the market. And each time he made the same agreement with others who were loafing around with nothing to do.
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|Mateus 20:6|Finally, about five in the afternoon the man went back and found some others standing there. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”
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|Mateus 20:7|“Because no one has hired us,” they answered. Then he told them to go work in his vineyard.
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|Mateus 20:8| uThat evening the owner of the vineyard told the man in charge of the workers to call them in and give them their money. He also told the man to begin with the ones who were hired last.
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|Mateus 20:9|When the workers arrived, the ones who had been hired at five in the afternoon were given a full day's pay.
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|Mateus 20:10|The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same,
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