Matthew 20:2
and, when he had agreed with the labourers for a denary the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
In Context
3And, going forth about the third hour, he saw others, standing in the market-place, unemployed;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:27Go, thou, near, and hear, all that Yahweh our God shall say,—so shalt thou speak unto us, all that Yahweh our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear and do.
1 Samuel 2:26But, the boy Samuel, went on growing in stature, and in favour,—both with Yahweh, and also with men.
1 Samuel 3:21Thus did Yahweh again appear in Shiloh,—for Yahweh had revealed himself unto Samuel in Shiloh, in the word of Yahweh.
1 Kings 3:6Then said Solomon—Thou, didst deal, with thy servant David my father, in great lovingkindness, according as he walked before thee, in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart, with thee,—and thou hast kept, for him, this great lovingkindness, that thou hast given unto him a son, to sit upon his throne, as it is this day.
2 Chronicles 34:3And, in the eighth year of his reign, he, being yet a boy, he began to seek unto the God of David his father,-and, in the twelfth year, he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, from the high places and the Sacred Stems, and the carved images and the molten images.
Matthew 18:28But that servant, going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him, a hundred denaries, and, laying hold of him, he began seizing him by the throat, saying, Pay! if anything thou owest.
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 →