Matthew 20:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:2 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
Revelation 6:6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
1 Samuel 2:26
And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

This parable of the labourers in the vineyard is intended, I. To represent to us the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 20:1), that is, the way and method of the gospel dispensation. The laws of that kingdom are not wrapt up in parables, but plainly set down, as in the sermon upon the mount; but the mysteries of that kingdom are delivered in parables, in sacraments, as here and Matt. 13:1-58 The duties of C…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny--a usual day’s hire. he sent them into his vineyard.