[Then] he went out again about noon and again at three o’clock in the afternoon and made the same offer.
Matthew 20:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) [Finally] he went out [once more] at about five o’clock in the afternoon and found [still] other men standing around. He said, ‘Why have you been standing around all day and not working?’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And about the eleventh hour (five o'clock) he went out and found still others standing around, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day? American Standard Version (1901) 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? Common English Bible Around five in the afternoon he went and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you just standing around here doing nothing all day long?’ Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? |
[Then] he went out again about noon and again at three o’clock in the afternoon and made the same offer.
They replied, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You men also may go to work in my vineyard.’
So, when those hired about five o’clock in the afternoon came in, each one received the usual pay for one full day’s work. [See note on verse 2].
While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.
(Now the local people of Athens, along with foreigners who lived there, spent [about] all their time telling about or listening to some new idea.)
We do not want you people to be [spiritually] slack, but to imitate those who will inherit [God’s] promises because of their faith and patience.