11 And when they[a] received it,[b] they began to complain[c] against the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last people worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!’ 13 But he answered one of them and[d] said, ‘Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:11 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“received”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 20:11 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Matthew 20:11 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to complain”)
  4. Matthew 20:13 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb