Matthew 20:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

They replied, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You men also may go to work in my vineyard.’

Cross References

Matthew 20:1

“For the kingdom of heaven is similar to a farmer who went out early one morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

Matthew 20:6

[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?’

Matthew 20:8

And when evening came the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers [in] and pay them their wages, beginning with the last [one hired, then] to the first.’

John 9:4

While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act.

Acts 4:16

saying, “What should we do to these men? For we cannot deny that a significant miracle was performed by them, and everybody living in Jerusalem knows it.

Romans 16:25

– See Verse 27

Ephesians 6:8

knowing that whatever good deed a person does, he will be rewarded for it from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a free person.

Colossians 1:26

[This message is] the secret which has been kept hidden throughout the ages and generations, but has now been revealed to God’s saints [i.e., His holy people].

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not [so] unjust as to forget the work you are doing and the love you have shown for Him, as you ministered to the saints [i.e., His holy people] and continue to minister [to them].