Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
7‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
Luke 23:40But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?
Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
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 →