“So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.”
And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman: call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first. The payment order — last first, first last — is the structural reversal that creates the parable's tension. The eleventh-hour workers are paid first, and the early-morning workers are paid last. The order is deliberately designed to make the equal payment visible to the early workers.
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