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.
6. About five o’clock the man went to the marketplace again and saw others standing there. He asked them, ‘Why did you stand here all day doing nothing?’
7. They answered, ‘No one gave us a job.’ The man said to them, ‘Then you can go and work in my vineyard.’
8. “At the end of the day, the owner of the vineyard said to the boss of all the workers, ‘Call the workers and pay them. Start with the last people I hired and end with those I hired first.’