Matthew 20:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² saying, ‘These last guys did one hour, and you’ve made them equal to us, who bore the burden and scorching heat of the day!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Saying, These [men] who came last worked no more than an hour, and yet you have made them rank with us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.

Common English Bible

¹² ‘These who were hired last worked one hour, and they received the same pay as we did even though we had to work the whole day in the hot sun.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² saying, 'These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.'

Matthew 20:12 Cross References

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint. So he implored that his soul would die, saying, “My death would be better than my life!”

Malachi 1:13

You also say, “It’s so tedious!” “And you sniff at it,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. “So you bring plunder, the lame and the sick. Then you bring them as the offering. Should I accept this from your hand?” says Adonai.

Malachi 3:14

You say: “Serving God is worthless.” Also: “What good is it that we kept His service or that we walked as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?

Matthew 20:11

“But when they received it, they began to grumble against the master of the house,

Luke 12:55

And when a south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It will be a scorcher’—and so it is.

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith.

Romans 3:30

Since God is One, He will set right the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we are both hungry and thirsty, dressed in rags and mistreated and homeless.

Ephesians 3:6

This mystery is that the Gentiles are joint heirs and fellow members of the same body and co-sharers of the promise in Messiah Yeshua through the Good News.

James 1:11

For the sun arises with a scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So also the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.