Matthew 20:6
At 5 p.m. he went out and found others standing there. ‘Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?’ he asked them.
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5So they went to work. Around noon and 3 p.m. he went out and did the same thing.
7‘Because nobody has hired us,’ they replied. ‘Go and work in the vineyard too,’ he told them.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Ezekiel 16:49The sins of your sister Sodom were these: She and her daughters were proud, greedy, and lazy. They didn't help the poor and those in need.
Luke 23:40But the other criminal disagreed and argued with him, “Don't you fear God even when you're suffering the same punishment?” he asked.
Acts 17:21(All the Athenians, including foreigners who lived there, spent their whole time doing nothing except explaining or listening to 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 →