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In one parable, workers hired at dawn and workers hired at five o'clock are all paid the same, a denarius. Which Gospel tells it?

The answer

Matthew, and only Matthew (Matthew 20:1-16). A landowner hires workers through the day, from early morning to five o'clock, and pays each of them a denarius. Those hired first grumble that they worked through the heat of the day.

Why it’s interesting

It ends: "So the last will be first, and the first will be last" (Matthew 20:16). The parable is part of about 210 verses that stand in Matthew and in no other Gospel.

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