Discovery BoxMatthew 20:2 
Context20:2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, 1 he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 21:39-40
Context21:39 So 2 they seized him, 3 threw him out of the vineyard, 4 and killed him. 21:40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
1 tn Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”
sn The standard wage was a denarius a day. The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer in Palestine in the 1st century.
2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ decision to kill the son in v. 38.
3 tn Grk “seizing him.” The participle λαβόντες (labontes) has been translated as attendant circumstance.
4 sn Throwing the heir out of the vineyard pictures Jesus’ death outside of Jerusalem.
