He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:2 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer.

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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37 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”(A)

They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages[a]! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

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  1. Mark 6:37 Greek take two hundred denarii

37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

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