Cross References

Matthew 20:6

Weymouth NT

And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, »`Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

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»So they went. Again about twelve, and about three o'clock, he went out and did the same.«

`Because no one has hired us,' they replied. »`You also, go into the vineyard,' he said.

»When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received a shilling apiece;«

We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

(For all the Athenians and their foreign visitors used to devote their whole leisure to telling or hearing about something new.)

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.