Matthew 20:2

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

συμφωνήσας δὲ μετὰ τῶν ἐργατῶν ἐκ δηναρίου τὴν ἡμέραν ἀπέστειλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα αὐτοῦ.
Greek NT

Conventione autem facta cum operariis ex denario diurno, misit eos in vineam suam.
Vulgate

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
ASV

And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

δέ

conjunction · 2781×

δηνάριον

denarion

noun · 16×

εἰς

eis

preposition · 1769×

μετά

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor

SBLGNT: συμφωνήσας δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: συμφωνήσας δὲ | RP: Καὶ συμφωνήσας

συμφωνήσας δὲ — SBLGNT
συμφωνήσας δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
Καὶ συμφωνήσας — Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

The Workers in the Vineyard

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Commentary on the Gospel of John

1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

Matt 18:28 — But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
Matt 20:9 — And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.