10. Then the workers who were hired first came to get their pay. They thought they would be paid more than the others. But each one of them also received one silver coin.
11. When they got their silver coin, they complained to the man who owned the land.
12. They said, ‘Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as you paid us. And we worked hard all day in the hot sun.’
13. But the man who owned the vineyard said to one of those workers, ‘Friend, I am being fair to you. You agreed to work for one silver coin.
14. So take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same pay that I gave you.
15. I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good to those people?’
16. “So those who are last now will someday be first. And those who are first now will someday be last.”
17. Jesus was going to Jerusalem. His 12 followers were with him. While they were on the way, Jesus gathered the followers together and spoke to them privately. He said to them,