Matthew 20:2
And when the covenant was made with the workmen, of a penny for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:27Rather nigh thou, and hear thou all things which our Lord God shall say to thee; and thou shalt speak to us, and we shall hear, and do those words. (Instead, thou go near, and listen thou to all the things that the Lord our God shall say to thee; and thou shalt tell us, and we shall hear, and do those things.)
1 Samuel 2:26Forsooth the child Samuel profited, and increased, and pleased both God and men. (And the boy Samuel grew, and learned, and pleased both God and men.)
1 Samuel 3:21And the Lord added to appear again in Shiloh, for the Lord was showed to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord;
1 Kings 3:6And Solomon said, Thou hast done great mercy with thy servant David, my father, as he went in thy sight, in truth, and [in] rightwiseness, and in rightful heart with thee; thou hast kept to him thy great mercy (or thou hast shown him thy great love), and hast given to him a son, sitting on his throne, as it is today.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of the realm of his empire, when he was yet a boy, ( that is, sixteen years of age), he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year after that he began, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from high places, and woods, and simulacra, and graven images, (or and in the twelfth year after that he began to reign, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from the hill shrines, and the idol groves or and the sacred poles, and the idols, and the carved images).
Matthew 18:28But that servant went out, and found one of his even-servants, that owed him an hundred pence, (or But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him a hundred pennies); and he held him, and strangled him, and said, Yield that that 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 →