Matthew 20:12
10 So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
11 On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
13 But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
14 Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
- KJV
- Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
- WEB
- saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
- ASV
- saying, These last have spent [but] one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- saying, ‘These, the last, worked one hour, and you made them equal to us, the ones having borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
- ÅB
- ‘Disse siste har bare vært her en time, og du har likestilt dem med oss som har båret dagens byrde og hete.’
- OTB
- De sa: 'Disse siste har bare arbeidet én time, og du har gjort dem lik oss som har båret dagens byrde og den brennende heten.'
- B1930
- Disse siste har bare vært her en time, og du har gjort dem like med oss som har båret dagens byrde og hete.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 11:5–6
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23–28
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
Read in contextLuke 14:10–11
But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:11
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
Read in contextLuke 18:11–12
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
Read in contextLuke 12:55
And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
Read in contextIsaiah 58:2–3
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Read in contextLuke 15:29–30
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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