1. ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3. ‘About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing.
4. He told them, “You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.”