Matthew 20:10
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
In context
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
9 The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
10 So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
11 On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
12 ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
Matthew 20:10 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
- KJV King James Version
- But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
- WEB World English Bible
- When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received every man a shilling.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But when the first came, they supposed that they should receive more; and they likewise received every man a penny.