Who Benefits the Most?

“About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. ‘He said to them, You also go and work in my vineyard.’ ” – Matthew 20:6,7 Recently, I shared principles from “The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard,” found in Matthew 20. In this parable, a generous business owner agreed to pay the same $200 in today’s wages whether the workers started working at 6:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m., the last hour of the day. So, here’s a good question we can ask about this story. Who benefits the most, the morning worker or the evening worker?  While they both have advantages, the evening person only had to work and sweat for one hour, so it may appear that they benefit the most.