Matthieu 20:10

Louis Segond

Les premiers vinrent ensuite, croyant recevoir davantage; mais ils reçurent aussi chacun un denier.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or quand les premiers furent venus ils croyaient recevoir davantage, mais ils reçurent aussi chacun un denier.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Les premiers, étant aussi venus, s'attendaient à recevoir davantage; mais ils reçurent aussi chacun un denier.

Darby's French Translation
et quand les premiers furent venus, ils croyaient recevoir davantage, mais ils reçurent, eux aussi, chacun un denier.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Matthew 19:27 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But when the first came,.... Who were early hired into the vineyard; and design either the first saints that were in the world; or the Jews that first believed in Christ, either really or nominally; or such, who were called by grace in their early days:

they supposed, or "hoped", as the Syriac version renders it,

that they should have received more; than a penny, a greater reward: not that they could expect it on the foot of their agreement, or on account of their work; but because they observed, that they that came last into the vineyard, had as much as they agreed for; and therefore hoped, from the goodness of their Lord to them, that they should receive more:

and they likewise received every man a penny; the selfsame privileges of the Gospel, and a title to the selfsame reward of free grace, the selfsame glory and happiness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They supposed that they should have received more - They had worked longer - they had been in the heat; they supposed that it was his intention to pay them, not according to contract, but according to the time of the labor.