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 Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 →