When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay.

Show me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought him a denarius.

“Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?”

Then I heard something like a voice from among the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat will cost a day’s pay and three quarts of barley will cost a day’s pay. But do not damage the olive oil and the wine!”

And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

Philip replied, “Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”

But he saw through their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you spend, I will repay you when I come back this way.’