Matthew 20:8-12

20:8 When ¹  it was evening ²  the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay ³  starting with the last hired until the first.’ 20:9 When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay. ⁴  20:10 And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage. 20:11 When ⁵  they received it, they began to complain ⁶  against the landowner, 20:12 saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² sn That is, six o’clock in the evening, the hour to pay day laborers. See Lev 19:13b.

³ tc ‡ Most witnesses (including B D W Θ Ë^1,13 33^vid Ï latt sy) have αὐτοῖς (autois, “to them”) after ἀπόδος (apodos, “give the pay”), but this seems to be a motivated reading, clarifying the indirect object. The omission is supported by א C L Z 085 Or. Nevertheless, NA²⁷ includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.

⁴ tn Grk “each received a denarius.” See the note on the phrase “standard wage” in v. 2.

⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁶ tn The imperfect verb ἐγόγγυζον (egonguzon) has been translated ingressively.