Matthew 20:13

But he answered and said to one of them: Friend, I do you no injustice; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

In Context

12saying: These last have worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day, and the heat.

14Take what is yours, and go; I will give to this last even as to you.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:50Jesus said to him: Friend, for what purpose have you come? Then they came, and laid hands on Jesus, and held him fast.

Romans 9:20No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?

Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:2-17

The Labourers in the Vineyard. 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and… Read the whole commentary →

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