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Matthew 20:3-11 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

3. And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing in the marketplace, idle.

4. And to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’

5. So they went. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did the same.

6. And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing around. And he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle the whole day?’

7. “‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him. “He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard, too.’

8. “Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

9. And those who had come about the eleventh hour each received a denarius.

10. And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; yet they too received a denarius.

11. “But when they received it, they began to grumble against the master of the house,

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