The Bible › Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner) › Matthew 20
Matthew 20:9
When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
Matthew 20:9 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
← PreviousRead Matthew 20Next →
Matthew 20:9 in other translations
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
6 But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
7 They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.
8 And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.
9 When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10 But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: And they also received every man a penny.
11 And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
12 Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.
Read Matthew 20 in the app The whole chapter