To one of them (εν αυτων). Evidently the spokesman of the group. "Friend" (εταιρε). Comrade. So a kindly reply to this man in plac…

Friend, I do thee no wrong. I have fully complied with the contract. We had an agreement; I have paid it all. If I choose to give a penny …

Friend — The word so translated (literally, comrade, companion) always carries with it on our Lord’s lips a tone of repro…

And when they had received it, they murmured against the master of the house, saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made t…

Remigius of Auxerre: To establish the truth of the saying, “There are many who are first who will be last, and the last fi…

The landowner insists, in a mild rebuke, that he is not cheating anyone. He has paid the agreed wage. Should he want to pay others more, that is hi…

But he answered one of them
Who was the forwardest and loudest in his complaints, and represented the rest;

This parable's primary purpose seems to show that although the Jews were first called into the vineyard, the gospel would eventually be preached to…

Above, the Lord spoke about the attainment of the kingdom of heaven by the common way of salvation and by the way of perfection. Because certain pe…