So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, they thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each.
Then Peter spoke up. “Look,” he said, “we have left everything and followed you. What will we have?”
They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.
He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.
The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.