5 Important Lessons in the Meaning of the Parable of the Vineyard
Jessica Van Roekel
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For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.
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And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
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And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;
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and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.
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Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.
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But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
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They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].
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But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.
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And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.
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And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.
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And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
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saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.
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But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?
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Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:
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is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good?
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Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.
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