“But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
And Jesus said to him, “Friend, why have you come?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took Him.
He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding garments?’ And he was speechless.
Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?
“Do you think this is right, that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be treated like the wicked; far be it from You. Should not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Take what is yours and go your way. I will give to this last one even as I give to you.