When a parable tells the story
of workers in a vineyard who complain about those hired later in the day receiving the same day's wage as they....
Napa Winemakers Harvesting Red Grapes Expect Better Flavor Driving north through the Napa Valley before sunrise, portable lights like spaceships
illuminate workers in the vineyards...
It is a dramatic landscape painting in saturated autumnal reds and yellows punctuated by the blue clothing
of workers in a vineyard, with a bright yellow sky and sun reflected in the river adjacent to the vineyard.
Though you have chosen me as
a worker in your vineyard and I pressed the grapes of your wrath.
We are too much like the workers taken on in the first hour whom the Lord talks about in his parable of
the workers in the vineyard (Mt 20:1 - 6).
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We can glimpse an insight in that most un-PC parable of
the workers in the vineyard.
By rendering «denarius» as «the usual daily wage,» the translators make it clear that the owner in the parable of
the workers in the vineyard is giving all his workers what they need for survival, regardless of the time they worked (Matt.
Consider the parable of
the workers in the vineyard and this statement therein: «But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
But the parable of
the workers in the vineyard does not speak only to the equality we all share before God in the afterlife.
Such an idea is found nowhere in the parable of
the workers in the vineyard and can not be taught in any way, shape, or form from this story.
And this statement, of course, can only be understood in light of the parable of
the workers in the vineyard that precedes it (Matthew 20:1 - 15).
Remember
the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1 - 16).
What is the difference between the two, and what is the connection between this saying and the parable of
the workers in the vineyard which Jesus just finished telling?
Christ also tells the parable of
the workers in the vineyard in Matthew 20 which reveals the same truth.
As
a worker in the vineyard of the Lord, this Jewish convert to Christianity was and remains unsurpassed.
Matthew 20 New International Version (NIV) The Parable of
the Workers in the Vineyard.