Matthew 20:6

And about eleven hours he went out, and found others who were standing and unemployed; and he said to them, Why are you standing all the day unemployed?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 he went forth again in six and nine hours, and did the same.

7They say to him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them, Go also you into the vinery, and whatever is suitable you shall receive.

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Cross References

Luke 23:40And his companion rebuked him, and said to him, Dost thou not fear (even) Aloha? for thou also art in this judgment.

Acts 17:21But all the Athinoyee, and those foreigners who are there, of no other thing are careful, but to say and to hear 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 →

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