¶ He answered to one of them, saying: friend I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?
Take that which is thy duty, and go thy way. I will give unto this last, as much as to thee.
And he agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, and sent them in to his vineyard.
and said unto him: friend, how camest thou in hither, and * hast not on a wedding garment? and he was even speechless. *(til here the text is from Tyndale's Cologne quarto fragment 1525; the text thereafter is from the octavo edition of 1526.)
And Iesus said unto him: friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they and laid hands on Iesus and took him.
But o man what art thou, which disputest with God? shall the work say to the workman: why hast thou made me on this fashion?