Matthew 20:6
But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Luke 23:40But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?
Acts 17:21Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.
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 →