Touch of Dutch

Continued from page 47 them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing [a]idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, [b]and whatever is right you will receive.’

8 “So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’ 9 And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius. 10 But when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius. 11 And when they had received it, they [c]complained against the landowner, 12 saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of

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the day.’ 13 But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. [d]For many are called, but few chosen.”

Footnotes: a) Matthew 20:6 NU omits idle b) Matthew 20:7 NU omits the rest of v. 7. c) Matthew 20:11 grumbled d) Matthew 20:16 NU omits the rest of v. 16. (Notes above acknowledge variations from Novum Testamentum Graece (designated NU -after Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies.))

[The Dutch for this parable is from the Amish Bible, which I respelled using the system with which we are familiar. If you like grammar, I also used the dative case where it calls for it.

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I included Luther’s German (1912) for those of you who have Dutch ancestors, since they would have heard that in their Lutheran or Reformed

Churches. (I did replace those German letters, with which we English folks are not familiar, with an equivalent.) Some vocabulary help:

Arbeiter, workers; Weinberg, vineyard; Hausvater, landowner; Groschen, old German coin; muessig (müßig, originally), idle; Abend, evening; murrten, grumbled.

If you take up the challenge of working with the German, you can get vocab help online. Also note that the German will use a past tense where we use the present perfect in Dutch; so, some of the verb will look a bit different.

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