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So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day.
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So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
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“At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
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“They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’ “The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
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“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
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When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
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When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage.
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When they received their pay, they protested to the owner,
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‘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.’
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“He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
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Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
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