Matthew 20:6
When he went out about five, he found some others standing there, and said to them ‘Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?’
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In Context
5So they went. Going out again about midday and about three o’clock, he did as before.
7‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. ‘You also may go into my vineyard,’ he said.
Cross References
Luke 23:40But the other rebuked him. “Haven’t you,” he said, “any respect for God, now that you are under the same sentence?
Acts 17:21(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last 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 →