Matthew 20:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And going about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle.

Matthew 20:3 Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49

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

Matthew 20:2

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

Matthew 20:4

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

Mark 15:25

And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.

Acts 16:19

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the rulers;

Acts 2:15

For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day;

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Hebrews 6:12

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