Commentary
“Am I not free to do what I please with my own?”
The landowner hires five groups
of laborers. Yet, it is only with the
first group does he have an agreement with them about their wages.
At the end of the workday, he
pays them the agreed amount.
Jesus does not say anything
about the attitude of all the laborers who were hired late in the day.
Only the first group
complains. It is probably understandable
that they feel cheated. But they receive
the amount they have agreed with the landowner.
Jesus begins the parable with, “The
kingdom of heaven is like.”
Membership in the kingdom is not
something upon which we agreed with God.
God is not obliged to give it to us, as the landowner asks the first
laborers, “Am I not free to do what I please with my own?”
It is a grace, freely
given. Blessed are those who recognize
God’s graciousness to us.
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