8. When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’
9. When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay.
10. And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.
11. When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner,
12. saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’
13. And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?
14. Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you.
15. Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’