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And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage,[a] he sent them into his vineyard. When it was about nine o’clock in the morning,[b] he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace[c] without work. He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:2 tn Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”sn The standard wage was a denarius a day. The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer in Palestine in the 1st century.
  2. Matthew 20:3 tn Grk “about the third hour.”
  3. Matthew 20:3 sn See the note on marketplaces in Matt 11:16.