Matius 20:2-5

20:2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, ¹  he sent them into his vineyard. 20:3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, ²  he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work. 20:4 He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’ 20:5 So they went. When ³  he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, ⁴  he did the same thing.

[20:2]  ¹ tn Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”

[20:2]  sn The standard wage was a denarius a day. The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer in Palestine in the 1st century.

[20:3]  ² tn Grk “about the third hour.”

[20:5]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[20:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “he went out again about the sixth and ninth hour.”