Matthew 20:1-16(NKJV)
“For the kingdom of
heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers
for his vineyard.
Now when he had
agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his
vineyard.
And he went out
about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and said to them,
‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they
went.
Again he went out
about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
And about the
eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to
them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’
They said to him,
‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the
vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’
“So when evening had
come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and
give them their wages, beginning
with the last to the first.’
And when those came
who were hired about the eleventh
hour, they each received a denarius.
But when the first came, they
supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a
denarius.
And when they had received it, they complained against the
landowner,
saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them
equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.’
But he answered one of them and
said, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a
denarius?
Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to
give to this last man the same as to you.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I
wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’
So the last will be
first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
"Is it not
lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?" Some people say that Jesus is a
Socialist. Does this look like something
a Socialist would say? :)
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