Matthew 20:2 - Plain English Version

² He talked to the men there, and they agreed to work for him. He agreed to give them the right pay, the pay that men always get for a day’s work. Then he sent them to work in his garden.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Common English Bible

² After he agreed with the workers to pay them a denarion, he sent them into his vineyard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Then, having made an agreement with the workers for one denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:2 Cross References

Matthew 18:28

But after that, his work-man went away, and he met another man. Before this time, that other man borrowed a little bit of money from the work-man, just 100 dollars. So the work-man grabbed that other man’s neck and said, ‘Give me back that money right now. It’s my money.’

Matthew 20:1

Jesus said to his followers, “This picture story is about the people that will be in God’s family. There was a man that owned a garden, and he wanted some work-men to get a job finished in one day. So he went out early in the morning, to the place in the town where men waited around looking for a job.

Matthew 20:13

The boss said to one of them, ‘My friend, I’m not cheating you. You agreed to work all day for one day’s pay, right?

Matthew 20:3

At 9 o’clock in the morning he went again to that place in the town, and he saw some other men standing around doing nothing.

Matthew 20:9

So he paid the men that started their job at 5 o’clock, and he gave each of them a full day’s pay. Then he kept on paying the other men, and he gave each man a full day’s pay.

Matthew 9:37

Jesus said to his followers, “Lots of people need to hear about me. They are ready to listen, but nobody is telling them. They are like a big crop of food plants on a farm that are ready for the workers to get their seeds for food. But there are only a few workers. The farmer needs a lot of workers to bring all those seeds into the shed, and in the same way I need a lot of workers to tell people about me, and bring them to God.

Mark 12:15

Jesus knew that if he said, “Don’t pay that tax money,” then he will be in trouble with the Roman bosses, and if he said, “Pay that tax money,” then he will be in trouble with the Jewish people. They wanted to be free from the Roman bosses. So Jesus said, “Don’t try to trick me. Have you got some money? I want to look at a coin.”

Luke 1:15

God will say that this kid is important, so you have to make sure he never drinks any sort of wine or grog at all. You see, the Holy Spirit will come into this kid before he gets born, while he is still inside his mother.

Luke 10:35

The next day, he paid a lot of money to the hotel boss, and said, ‘This is for you to keep this man here and look after him until he gets better. If it costs more than this, I’ll pay you the rest next time I come here.’ ”

2 Timothy 3:15

And remember that a long time ago you were a kid, and your mother taught you things from God’s book, and that gave you enough sense to believe in Jesus Christ. Now you believe in him, and he saves you.

1 Samuel 2:18

The boy Samuel worked for God. He wore special clothes like those of a man that looked after God’s ceremonies.

1 Samuel 2:26

But the boy Samuel was growing up the right way. God loved him and so did everybody else. (We have not yet translated 2:27-36.)

1 Samuel 3:1

At that time, God talked only to a few people. Only a few saw dreams from God. The boy Samuel helped Eli, and he did his work for God.

1 Samuel 3:21

Lots of times God came to him at that place called Shiloh. He showed himself to Samuel and told his message to him.