The Workers in the Vineyard Made Simple

The last shall be first. This Scripture-first guide walks through Jesus's parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) hour by hour: the householder who keeps going out to hire, the eleventh-hour workers who receive a full day's wage, the grumbling of the first, and the searching question, "Is thine eye evil, because I am good?" Twelve chapters cover the seeking Father, grace at every hour of life, the denarius that is never pro-rated, the idolatry of seniority, the great reversal of the cross, and the harvest that is white already — all in the explicitly Trinitarian faith: prayer to the Father, through Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit. Grace, not wages.

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