7" 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'


In Context

4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

5 So they went.

6 "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'

7 " 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'

8 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'

9 "The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.

Matthew 20:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, [that] shall ye receive.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:7They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:7They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:7They say to him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, that shall ye receive.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:7|They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' |He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:7they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye — ye also — to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:7They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He said to them, Go you also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, that shall you receive.