Matthew 20:6

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

English Majority Text (NT)

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

5Again going out about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise.

7They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go 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 even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?

Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say 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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