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To them he said, `You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.` So they went their way.
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A Promise, Not a Contract
Commentators highlight a key difference in this hiring. Unlike the first workers who agreed to a specific wage, this group was simply promised "whatsoever is right." They went to work based on their trust in the landowner's character and fairness, not on a detailed contract. This models a faith that relies on God's goodness and justice, even when the exact outcome isn't specified.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whatever is right. Whatever it will appear you can earn. The contract with the first was definite; with this one it depended on the judgme…
Whatsoever is right (ο εαν η δικαιον). "Is fair" (Allen), not anything he pleased, but a just proportionate wage. Indefinite relat…
19th Century
Anglican
Whatsoever is right — The absence of a definite contract in hiring the laborers who did less than the day’s work obviously involve…
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Baptist
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and wh…
There were twelve “hours” from dawn to sundown. The third hour (v.3) would be about 9:00 A. M., the sixth about 12:00 noon., and the eleventh about…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And said unto them, go you also into the vineyard Expressive of a call of divine grace out of the world, into the ch…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
