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.

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?

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!’