Parable of the Workers

Jacob Willemszoon de Wet or Jacob Willemsz. de Wet the Elder (c. 1610 – between 1675 and 1691) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose works were largely influenced by Rembrandt.  

Jacob Willemszoon de Wet was a student of Rembrandt and he had himself a larger circle of pupils. He obviously received the idea of the octave in his training and, as his image of "worship" shows, he also understood it as an inner way of realization. His paintings also testify that the knowledge of the law of the octave was known in the Dutch schools of painting and was conveyed as a structure of the spiritual way of man. In the individuals of his images, the psychic states of the different stages of the spiritual way are clearly recognizable.

According to Matthew 20:1–16 Jesus says that any "laborer" who accepts the invitation to the work in the vineyard (said by Jesus to represent the Kingdom of Heaven), no matter how late in the day, will receive an equal reward with those who have been faithful the longest.