the response of the landowner, “I am doing you no wrong” (v. 13). The matter turns on two things: the first hired “thought they would [and should!] receive more” at the end of the day (v. 10); and the landowner declares, “I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you” (v. 14). It feels to us readers, as it did to the laborers in the parable and undoubtedly to those who heard Jesus tell it, that generosity seems arbitrary when not calculated fairly. Likewise, if we get any sense of the perspective