Matthew 20:2
Good News Translation
He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.

New Revised Standard Version
After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Contemporary English Version
After he had agreed to pay them the usual amount for a day's work, he sent them off to his vineyard.

New American Bible
After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

he had.

Matthew 20:13 But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

Exodus 19:5,6 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:27-30 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will do them. . . .

a penny.

Matthew 18:28 But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

Matthew 22:19 Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

*margins

Luke 10:35 And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and said: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee.

Revelation 6:6 And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.

he sent.

1 Samuel 2:18,26 But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod. . . .

1 Samuel 3:1,21 Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision. . . .

1 Samuel 16:11,12 And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. . . .

1 Kings 3:6-11 And Solomon said: Thou hast shewed great mercy to thy servant David, my father, even as he walked before thee in truth, and justice, and an upright heart with thee: and thou hast kept thy great mercy for him, and hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. . . .

1 Kings 18:12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.

2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not:

Luke 1:15 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Context
The Parable of the Workers
1The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:37
Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.

Matthew 20:1
The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3
And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle.

Mark 12:15
Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me? Bring me a penny that I may see it.

Luke 20:24
Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him: Caesar's.

Matthew 20:1
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