Matthew 20:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius{A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
  • Deut 5:27-30 : 27 Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you to us all that Yahweh our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever! 30 Go tell them, Return you to your tents.
  • 1 Sam 2:18 : 18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
  • 1 Sam 2:26 : 26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
  • 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
  • 1 Sam 3:21 : 21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 16:11-12 : 11 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here. 12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6-9 : 6 Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go out or come in. 8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people? 10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
  • 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
  • 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"
  • Matt 18:28 : 28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
  • Matt 20:13 : 13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?
  • Matt 22:19 : 19 Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  • Luke 10:35 : 35 On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.'
  • 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 From infancy, you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Rev 6:6 : 6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix{A choenix is a dry volume measure that is a little more than a litre (a little more than a quart).} of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

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  • Matt 20:1
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    1"For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

  • Matt 20:3-15
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    3He went out about the third hour,{Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.} and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

    4To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

    5Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,{noon and 3:00 P. M.} and did likewise.

    6About the eleventh hour{5:00 PM} he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

    7"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

    8When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

    9"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

    10When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

    11When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

    12saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

    13"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?

    14Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

    15Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

  • Luke 20:9-16
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    9He began to tell the people this parable. "A {NU (in brackets) and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

    10At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

    11He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

    12He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

    13The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

    14"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

    15They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

    16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

  • Mark 12:1-3
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    1He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

    3They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

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    28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

  • Matt 21:33-35
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    33"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

    34When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

    35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

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    23Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

    24When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.}

    25But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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    39So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

    41They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

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    14"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

    15To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

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    5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

    9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Matt 9:37-38
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    37Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

    38Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."

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    19"Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

  • Deut 24:15
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    15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Luke 19:12-13
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    12He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

    13He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 minas was more than 3 year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'

  • Luke 19:15
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