“But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?' ”
The estate owner, who was a good man, then gently took one of them aside, and calling him His ‘friend', an act of graciousness in itself, He pointed out that He had done him no wrong, for He had paid him exactly what he had agreed. Why then was he grumbling when he had received the amount agreed in their contract?