Matthew 20:6
"When he went out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "‘Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?’
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5"So they went. Again at noon, and about three o’clock, he went out and did the same thing.
7"‘Because no one has hired us,’ they replied. "He said to them, ‘Do you also go into the vineyard.’
Cross References
Luke 23:40But the other, answering, reproved him, saying. "Have you no fear of God even? When you are suffering the same punishment as he?
Acts 17:21(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell 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 →