◄ Matthew 20:10 ►
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Good News Translation
So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each.

New Revised Standard Version
Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.

Contemporary English Version
The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same,

New American Bible
So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny.

Context
The Parable of the Workers
…9When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 10But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny. 11And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,…
Cross References
Matthew 20:2
And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:9
When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

Matthew 20:11
And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

Matthew 20:9
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