Matthew 20:6
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and says unto them, Why stand all of you here all the day idle?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Luke 23:40But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation?
Acts 17:21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either 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 →