إنجيل القدّيس لوقا 8-1:16
قالَ الربُّ يَسوع لِتَلامِيذِهِ: كانَ رَجُلٌ غَنِيٌّ لَهُ وَكِيل. فَوُشِيَ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ يُبَدِّدُ مُقْتَنَيَاتِهِ
فَدَعَاهُ وَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا هذَا الَّذي أَسْمَعُهُ عَنْكَ؟ أَدِّ حِسَابَ وِكَالَتِكَ، فَلا يُمْكِنُكَ بَعْدَ اليَوْمِ أَنْ تَكُونَ وَكِيلاً
فَقَالَ الوَكِيلُ في نَفْسِهِ: مَاذَا أَفْعَل؟ لأَنَّ سَيِّدي يَنْزِعُ عَنِّي الوِكَالة، وأَنَا لا أَقْوَى عَلَى الفِلاَحَة، وَأَخْجَلُ أَنْ أَسْتَعْطي
قَدْ عَرَفْتُ مَاذَا أَفْعَل، حَتَّى إِذَا عُزِلْتُ مِنَ الوِكَالَةِ يَقْبَلُنِي النَّاسُ في بُيُوتِهِم
فَدَعَا مَدْيُونِي سَيِّدِهِ واحِدًا فَوَاحِدًا وَقَالَ لِلأَوَّل: كَمْ عَلَيْكَ لِسَيِّدي؟
فَقَال: مِئَةُ بَرْمِيلٍ مِنَ الزَّيْت. قَالَ لَهُ الوَكيل: إِلَيْكَ صَكَّكَ! إِجْلِسْ حَالاً وٱكْتُبْ: خَمْسِين
ثُمَّ قَالَ لآخَر: وَأَنْتَ، كَمْ عَلَيْك؟ فَقَال: مِئَةُ كِيسٍ مِنَ القَمْح. فَقالَ لَهُ الوَكيل: إِلَيْكَ صَكَّكَ! وٱكْتُبْ: ثَمَانِين
فَمَدَحَ السَّيِّدُ الوَكِيلَ الخَائِن، لأَنَّهُ تَصَرَّفَ بِحِكْمَة. فَإِنَّ أَبْنَاءَ هذَا الدَّهْرِ أَكْثَرُ حِكْمَةً مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ النُّورِ في تَعَامُلِهِم مَعَ جِيلِهِم
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 20:1-16a.
Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’
So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o’clock, and did likewise.
Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’
When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’
When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage.
So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.
And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner,
saying, ‘These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’
He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
(Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”