About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’
So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did likewise.
They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into my vineyard as well, and you will receive whatever is right.’
When those who had been hired about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
I must do the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who dwelt there would spend their time in nothing else but talking about and listening to whatever the newest idea might be.)
so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.