Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

In Context

5And they went. Again he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

7They said to him: No man has hired us. He said to them: Go you also into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive.

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Cross References

Luke 23:40But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Do you not fear God, since you are in the same condemnation?

Acts 17:21For all the Athenians and resident strangers have leisure for nothing else than to tell or to hear some new thing.

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 →

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