Matthew 20:1

Jesus likens the Kingdom to a landowner hiring workers for his vineyard early in the day. The parable illustrates how God's grace operates.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 13:24Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
• Matt 13:47Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.
• Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Matt 25:1“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
• Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
• Matt 22:2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
• John 15:1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
• Matt 21:33–43Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
• Matt 9:37–38Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
• Isa 5:1–2I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
• Matt 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
• Matt 13:44–45The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.
• Matt 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
• Matt 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
• Matt 25:14For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
• 2 Pet 1:5–10For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• Mark 13:34It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
• Matt 21:28But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
• Jer 25:3–4“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

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