Matthew 20:13

But he answered, and said to one of them: My friend, I do thee no injustice: was it not for a denarius that thou didst contract with me?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

12and 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.

14Take what belongeth to thee, and go: for I am disposed to give to this last, as to thee.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:50And Jesus said to him: My friend, is it for this thou hast come? Then they came up, and laid their hands on Jesus, and took him.

Romans 9:20Thou, thus! Who art thou? O man; that thou repliest against God! Shall the potter's vessel say to the former of it, Why hast thou formed me so?

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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