1For the kingdom of the heavens is like a human householder who went out early to hire workers for his vineyard.2After agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.3And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.4And to those he said, Go into the vineyard, you also, and whatever may be just I will give you.5They went away. Again going out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.6About the eleventh hour he went out, found others standing, and said to them, "Why have you stood here idle the whole day?"7They said to him, "Because no one hired us." He said to them, "Go into the vineyard, you also."8When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, Call the workers and pay them the wage, beginning from the last until the first.9And those who came about the eleventh hour received each a denarius.10And the first came and thought that they would receive more, and they also each received a denarius.11After receiving it, they murmured against the householder.12saying, 'These last worked one hour, and you made them equal to us who carried the burden of the day and the heat.'13He answered one of them, Friend, I am not harming you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?14Take what is yours and go. I choose to give to this last one as also to you.15Is it not lawful for me to do what I choose with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am good?16Thus the last will be first, and the first last.