Matthew 20:13
But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked, this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
Job 34:17Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
Matthew 26:50And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up, and laid hands on Jesus, and held him.
Romans 9:20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou 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 →