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OET (OET-RV) The ones who’d started late afternoon each received the day’s wage that the first workers had been promised,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / go
ἐλθόντες
/having/_come
In a context such as this, your language might say “gone” instead of come. Alternate translation: “having gone”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
οἱ περὶ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην ὥραν
the_‹ones› about the eleventh hour
Jesus is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “the ones who were hired at about the eleventh hour”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
περὶ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην ὥραν
about the eleventh hour
See how you translated the phrase the eleventh hour in 20:6. Alternate translation: “about 5:00 PM”
Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal
τὴν ἑνδεκάτην ὥραν
the eleventh hour
If your language does not use ordinal numbers, you could use a cardinal number here or an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: “hour eleven”
Note 5 topic: translate-bmoney
δηνάριον
/a/_denarius
See how you translated the word denarius in 20:2. Alternate translation: “one silver coin” or “an average wage”
20:1-16 This parable is similar to the parable of the Lost Son (Luke 15:11-32). In both, God’s grace is shown to two parties while one grumbles about unjust treatment.
OET (OET-RV) The ones who’d started late afternoon each received the day’s wage that the first workers had been promised,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.