Matthew 20:12
and said: These last have labored but one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us who have borne the burden of the day and the heat of it.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
11And when they received it, they murmured against the lord of the house,
Cross References
Luke 12:55And when a south wind bloweth, ye say: It will be hot: and it is so.
Luke 15:29And he said to his father: Lo, these many years have I labored in thy service, and never transgressed thy command; and thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
Romans 3:22even the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Messiah, for every one, and on every one, that believeth in him: for there is no distinction;
Romans 3:30Because there is, one God, who justifieth the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision by the same faith.
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 →