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Matthew 20:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 20:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius[a] a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 Going out about nine o’clock,[b] he saw some others standing idle in the marketplace. 4 He said to them, ‘You also go into my vineyard and I will give you what is just.’
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- Matthew 20:2 Denarius: a Roman coin that was the normal daily wage at the time—what a Roman soldier also received.
- Matthew 20:3 Nine o’clock: literally, “the third hour.”
