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At five o'clock he went back and found still others standing around. He said, 'Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?
7
' "They said, 'Because no one hired us.' "He told them to go to work in his vineyard.
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"When the day's work was over, the owner of the vineyard instructed his foreman, 'Call the workers in and pay them their wages. Start with the last hired and go on to the first.'
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