20:1 因为诸天的国好像一个作家主的人，清早出去，为他的葡萄园雇工人，
For the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, who is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.
20:2 和工人讲定一天一个银币，就打发他们进他的葡萄园去。
And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 约在上午九时，他又出去，看见市场上另有闲站的人，
And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
20:4 就对他们说，你们也进葡萄园去，所当给的，我必给你们。他们就去了。
And to those he said, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.
20:5 约在正午和午后三时，他再出去，也是这样行。
And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour and did likewise.
20:6 约在午后五时，他出去，看见另有人站着，就对他们说，你们为什么整天在这里闲站？
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and said to them, Why have you been standing here all the day idle?
20:7 他们说，因为没有人雇我们。他说，你们也进葡萄园去。
They said to him, Because no one has hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard.
20:8 到了黄昏，葡萄园的主人对管事的说，叫工人都来，给他们工钱，从后来的开始，直到先来的为止。
And when evening fell, the master of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the last ones to the first.
20:9 那些约在午后五时雇的来了，每个人都领了一个银币。
And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.
20:10 那些先雇的也来了，他们以为必要多领，但他们也是各领一个银币。
And when the first ones came, they supposed that they would receive more. And they themselves also received each a denarius.
20:11 他们领了之后，就埋怨家主说，
And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
20:12 那些后来的作了一小时的工，你竟叫他们和我们这些整天劳苦受热的一样。
Saying, These last ones worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
20:13 家主回答他们其中的一个说，朋友，我没有对你不义。你不是与我讲定一个银币么？
But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I am doing nothing unrighteous to you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
20:14 拿你的走吧；我愿意给那后来的，正如给你的一样。
Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last one even as I have given to you.
20:15 难道我不可随我的意思，用我的东西么？还是因为我慈善，你就眼红了么？
Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am good?
20:16 这样，在后的将要在前，在前的将要在后了。
Thus shall the last be first and the first last.
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