Matthew 20:6 “About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing ar…”

Matthew 20:6

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

World English Bible

About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

American Standard Version

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Geneva Bible 1599

And he went about the eleuenth houre, and found other standing idle, and sayd vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Darby Translation

But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Young's Literal Translation

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

Bible in Basic English

And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?

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Cross references

“the eleventh”

John 9:4 Luke 23:40–43 Ecclesiastes 9:10

John 9:4 · BSB

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Luke 23:40–43 · BSB

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

Ecclesiastes 9:10 · BSB

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

“Why”

Acts 17:21 Hebrews 6:12 Proverbs 19:15 Ezekiel 16:49

Acts 17:21 · BSB

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

Hebrews 6:12 · BSB

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Proverbs 19:15 · BSB

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49 · BSB

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

7‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’

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