Matthew 20:6

And around the eleventh hour, having gone out, the Baal Bayit found others standing around, and he says to them, Why have you been standing here all the day not working?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5And they left. And again, having gone out around the sixth and the ninth hour, the Baal Bayit did the same thing.

7The idle workers say to the Baal Bayit, Because no one hired us. The Baal Bayit says to them, You go also into the kerem.

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:15Atzlah (slothfulness, laziness) casteth into a tardemah (deep sleep), 1 and a nefesh remiyyah (a deceitfully lazy soul) shall suffer hunger. 1

Ezekiel 16:49Hinei, this was the avon Sodom thy achot; ga'on (pride), over fullness of lechem, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her banot, neither did she strengthen the yad of the oni (poor) and evyon (needy).

Luke 23:40Save yourself and us. And in reply the other, rebuking him, said, Do you not have yirat Shomayim? For you are under the same gezar din (verdict) of harshaah (condemnation as guilty).

Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the visiting foreigners and tourists in Athens used to spend time doing nothing but shmoozing about the latest novelty in the news.

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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