‘Listen, friend,’ the owner answered one of them, ‘I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin.
Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly.”
Are you trying to prove that I am unjust— to put me in the wrong and yourself in the right?
Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you.
He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.
‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ the king asked him. But the man said nothing.
Jesus answered, “Be quick about it, friend!” Then they came up, arrested Jesus, and held him tight.
But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”