Matthew 20:6
And having gone out about the eleventh hour, he found others who have stood idle. And he says to them, Why have ye stood here idle the whole day?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5Again having gone out about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.
Luke 23:40But the other man having answered, rebuking him, saying, Thou fear not even God, since thou are in the same condemnation?
Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:2-17
The Labourers in the Vineyard. 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. 2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and… Read the whole commentary →