Matthew 20:6
And about the eleventh he went out, and found others standing, and says to them: Why stand ye here all the day idle?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
7They say to him: Because no one hired us. He says to them: Go ye also into the vineyard.
Cross References
Luke 23:40But the other answering rebuked him, saying: Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
Acts 17:21Now all Athenians, and the strangers residing there, spent their leisure for nothing else, but 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 →