Discovery BoxMatthew 20:1 
ContextWorkers in the Vineyard
20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner 1 who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:8
Context20:8 When 2 it was evening 3 the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay 4 starting with the last hired until the first.’
1 sn The term landowner here refers to the owner and manager of a household.
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 sn That is, six o’clock in the evening, the hour to pay day laborers. See Lev 19:13b.
4 tc ‡ Most witnesses (including B D W Θ Ë1,13 33vid Ï latt sy) have αὐτοῖς (autois, “to them”) after ἀπόδος (apodos, “give the pay”), but this seems to be a motivated reading, clarifying the indirect object. The omission is supported by א C L Z 085 Or. Nevertheless, NA27 includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.
