'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'

When he had agreed with the workers [on wages] for the usual farm laborer's pay for a day's work, he [then] sent them to work in his vineyard. [Note: The coin mentioned here would amount to $60-$84 in 1994, based on $5-$7 an hour for a twelve hour day. This coin also forms the basis for calculating all other monetary references in the New Testament].

He said to them, 'You men also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' So, they went to work.

When Jesus understood that, he said unto them, "Why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

She hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

But what think you? A man had two sons; and he went to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.

and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this [reason] miraculous powers are at work in him."

And when they who came to work about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies in the field and how they grow. They don't work or spin yarn,