Matthew 20:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And going out about the third hour (nine o'clock), he saw others standing idle in the marketplace;

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

Common English Bible

³ “Then he went out around nine in the morning and saw others standing around the marketplace doing nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

Matthew 20:3 Cross References

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.

Acts 2:15

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

Mark 15:25

It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

Ezekiel 16:49

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Matthew 20:2

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:4

and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

Acts 16:19

But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.