'Hired' in the Bible

"'Because no one has hired us,' they replied. "'You also, go into the vineyard,' he said.

They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with the hired men, and went and followed Him.

So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'

The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.

After this Paul lived for fully two years in a hired house of his own, receiving all who came to see him.