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12 ‘These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we’ve been working all day,[a] enduring the scorching heat!’

13 “But he told one of them, ‘Friend, I’m not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn’t you? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man as much as I gave you.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:12 Lit. we’ve endured the burden of the day
  2. Matthew 20:14 Lit. to this last man as also to you