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Connecting Statement:
Jesus concludes his parable about a landowner who hires workers. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parables)
Is it not lawful for me to do as I want with what belongs to me?
The landowner uses a question to correct the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "It is lawful for me do what I want with my own possessions." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)
Is it not lawful for me
"Do I not have the right" or "Is it not proper." The landowner is reminding the laborers that everyone allows people to do what they wish with their own property. He is not asking if there is a law against what he is doing.
Or are you envious because I am good?
The landowner uses a question to rebuke the workers who were complaining. Alternate translation: "You should not be envious because I am good." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)
I am good
In the context here, the reader should understand the landowner being "good" as "generous," the opposite of the laborers being "evil," which is "envious."