⁸“When ^aevening came, the ¹owner of the vineyard ^*said to his ^bforeman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

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Footnotes

1Or lord
*A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

Cross references

a Lev 19:13; Deut 24:15
b Luke 8:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“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.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

NLTNew Living Translation

“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.’

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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