'Hired' in the Bible

They told him, "Because no one has hired us.' He told them, "You go into the vineyard as well.'

Those who were hired at five o'clock came, and each received a denarius.

He immediately called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.