At that time Peter got up among the brothers (there were about a hundred and twenty present) and said,

Around the throne there were twenty-four thrones, with twenty-four elders seated on them, clothed in white and with crowns of gold on their heads.

When he had contracted with the laborers at twenty cents a day, he sent them off to his vineyard.

But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not contract with me at twenty cents?

Should we pay it, or should we not?" Now because He saw their pretense, He said to them, "Why are you testing me so? Bring me a twenty-cent coin to look at."

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

Then the twenty-four elders who were seated on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

The second one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made a hundred!'

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

So he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him and give it to the man who has the two hundred.'

"Show me a twenty-cent coin. Whose picture and title does it bear?" They answered, "Caesar's."

On taking soundings they found a depth of twenty fathoms; and a little later again taking soundings, they found it was fifteen.

Let us stop practicing immorality, as some of them did, and on one day twenty-three thousand fell dead.

When He took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp, and golden bowls that were full of incense, which represent the prayers of God's people.

Then the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen! Praise the Lord!"

And they who had been hired at five o'clock came and received twenty cents each.

He called in ten of his slaves and gave them twenty dollars apiece and told them to do business with his money while he was gone.

the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne, and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and they throw their crowns in front of the throne, and say:

"But that slave went out and found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, demanding, 'Pay me what you owe me!'