Matthew 20:12
"‘Those last men,’ they said, ‘have toiled only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the burning heat of the day.’
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11"And as they took it they began to grumble against the master of the house.
Cross References
Luke 12:55"And when you feel the south winds blowing you say, ‘There will be a hot wind,’ and it comes to pass.
Luke 15:29"‘All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.
Romans 3:22I mean a righteousness coming from God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe. For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile,
Romans 3:30since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.
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 →