Matthew 20:6 - English Majority Text Version 2009 And about the eleventh hour, going out he found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' 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? |
"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive.'
"And when those came [who were hired] about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.
I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
Now all the Athenians and the strangers staying there as visitors spent their time in nothing other than to say or to hear some new thing.
lest you become dull, but [become] imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.