Matthew 20:6

But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

7They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor.

Luke 23:40But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art condemned under the same condemnation?

Acts 17:21(Now all the Athenians, and strangers that were there, employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing 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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