1. “The kingdom of heaven is like a person who owned some land. One morning, he went out very early to hire some people to work in his vineyard.
2. The man agreed to pay the workers one coin for working that day. Then he sent them into the vineyard to work.
3. About nine o’clock the man went to the marketplace and saw some other people standing there, doing nothing.
4. So he said to them, ‘If you go and work in my vineyard, I will pay you what your work is worth.’
5. So they went to work in the vineyard. The man went out again about twelve o’clock and three o’clock and did the same thing.