Matthew 20:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 `And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth `is' Mine; 6 and ye -- ye are to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: these `are' the words which thou dost speak unto the sons of Israel.'
  • Deut 5:27-30 : 27 Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it. 28 `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well `in' all that they have spoken. 29 O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age! 30 `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents;
  • 1 Sam 2:18 : 18 And Samuel is ministering `in' the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt `with' an ephod of linen;
  • 1 Sam 2:26 : 26 And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and `is' good both with Jehovah, and also with men.
  • 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 And the youth Samuel is serving Jehovah before Eli, and the word of Jehovah hath been precious in those days -- there is no vision broken forth.
  • 1 Sam 3:21 : 21 And Jehovah addeth to appear in Shiloh, for Jehovah hath been revealed unto Samuel, in Shiloh, by the word of Jehovah.
  • 1 Sam 16:11-12 : 11 And Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Are the young men finished?' and he saith, `Yet hath been left the youngest; and lo, he delighteth himself among the flock;' and Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Send and take him, for we do not turn round till his coming in hither.' 12 And he sendeth, and bringeth him in, and he `is' ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and of good appearance; and Jehovah saith, `Rise, anoint him, for this `is' he.'
  • 1 Kgs 3:6-9 : 6 And Solomon saith, `Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as `at' this day. 7 And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast caused thy servant to reign instead of David my father; and I `am' a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in; 8 and Thy servant `is' in the midst of thy people, whom Thou hast chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude, 9 and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' 10 And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon hath asked this thing, 11 and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment,
  • 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 and it hath been, I go from thee, and the Spirit of Jehovah doth lift thee up, whither I know not, and I have come to declare to Ahab, and he doth not find thee, and he hath slain me; and thy servant is fearing Jehovah from my youth.
  • 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'
  • Matt 18:28 : 28 `And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.
  • Matt 20:13 : 13 `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?
  • Matt 22:19 : 19 show me the tribute-coin?' and they brought to him a denary;
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;
  • Luke 10:35 : 35 and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.
  • 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;
  • Rev 6:6 : 6 and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'

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    1`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

  • Matt 20:3-15
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    3`And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle,

    4and to these he said, Go ye -- also ye -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

    5and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

    6And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

    7they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye -- ye also -- to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

    8`And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last -- unto the first.

    9And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.

    10`And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,

    11and having received `it', they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

    12that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.

    13`And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

    14take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;

    15is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

  • Luke 20:9-16
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    9And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

    10and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send `him' away empty.

    11`And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;

    12and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.

    13`And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;

    14and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;

    15and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed `him'; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?

    16He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'

  • Mark 12:1-3
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    1And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-winevat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

    2and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,

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  • Matt 21:33-35
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    34`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

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  • Matt 21:39-41
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    39and having taken him, they cast `him' out of the vineyard, and killed him;

    40whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'

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  • Matt 22:5
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  • Mark 12:8-9
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    8and having taken him, they did kill, and cast `him' forth without the vineyard.

    9`What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Matt 9:37-38
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  • Matt 25:19
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    19`And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

  • Deut 24:15
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    15in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he `is' poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

  • Luke 19:12-13
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    12He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,

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