Matthew 20:3

Good News Translation (US Version)

He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing,

Cross References

1 Timothy 5:13

They also learn to waste their time in going around from house to house; but even worse, they learn to be gossips and busybodies, talking of things they should not.

Acts 2:15

These people are not drunk, as you suppose; 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

She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.

Matthew 20:4

so he told them, ‘You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.’

Acts 16:19

When her owners realized that their chance of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the authorities in the public square.