Matthew Chapter 20 verse 9 Holy Bible
And when they came that `were hired' about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling.
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And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.
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And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.
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And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
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"When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
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And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - They received every man a penny. The steward, of course, was acting according to his master's instructions (though nothing is said of any previous orders on the subject) when he thus bounteously remunerated those that had been hired at the eleventh hour. Some commentators have endeavoured to show that the "penny" allotted to each set differed greatly in value; but this is an unwarrantable conjecture, and it is indispensable to the purport of the parable that the wages should be alike to all.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Every man a penny.--The scale of payment rested on the law of a generous equity. The idleness of the labourers had been no fault of theirs, and the readiness with which they came at the eleventh hour implied that they would have come as readily had they been called at daybreak, and therefore they received a full day's wages for their fraction of a day's work. The standard of payment was qualitative, not quantitative. In the interpretation of the parable, the "penny," as before, represents the eternal life of the kingdom of heaven. No true labourer could receive less; the longest life of labour could claim no more.
