Many people spread their clothing on the roadway, while others spread leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields.

Now there were [some] shepherds in that region who were living in the fields and guarding their flocks [of sheep] at night.

Then the shepherds returned [to their fields], honoring and praising God for everything they had heard and seen, for it all happened just as they had been told.

So, he went to work for one of the citizens of that country who sent him to his fields to feed his hogs.

Are you not [always] saying, 'There are still four months before harvest time comes'? Look, I am telling you [disciples], lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white and ripe for harvest [i.e., people are ready to make a spiritual response].

Look, the wages you have fraudulently refused to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out [against you]. And the cries of these harvest hands have reached the ears of the Lord of [heavenly] armies [i.e., Almighty God].