Matthew 20:3

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About the third hour, he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

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  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they should not.
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 Then you will not become sluggish, but will imitate those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and a lazy soul will go hungry.
  • Ezek 16:49 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of food, and abundant ease were hers and her daughters', but they did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  • Matt 11:16-17 : 16 To what can I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to their companions: 17 ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
  • Matt 20:6-7 : 6 About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?' 7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'
  • Mark 15:25 : 25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified Him.
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 'These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!'
  • Acts 17:17-21 : 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout people, and every day in the marketplace with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, 'What is this babbler trying to say?' Others remarked, 'He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,' because he was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection. 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, 'May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 For you bring some strange ideas to our ears, and we want to know what they mean. 21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

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  • Matt 20:4-14
    11 verses
    90%

    4 He told them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

    5 So they went. He went out again around the sixth and ninth hours and did the same thing.

    6 About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?'

    7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.'

    8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going to the first.'

    9 The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.

    10 So when the first ones came, they expected to receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.

    11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.

    12 'These who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.'

    13 But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?'

    14 'Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.'

  • Matt 20:1-2
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    1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

    2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

  • Matt 21:28-30
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    28 What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'

    29 The son replied, 'I don’t want to.' But later, he changed his mind and went.

    30 The man then went to the second son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go.

  • Luke 20:9-13
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    9 Then he began to tell the people this parable: 'A man planted a vineyard, leased it to some farmers, and went away for a long time.

    10 At harvest time, he sent a servant to the farmers so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

    11 He proceeded to send another servant, but they also beat him, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

    12 Then he sent a third one, but they wounded him also and threw him out.

    13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.'

  • Matt 21:33-36
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    33 Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

    34 When the time came to harvest the fruit, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

    35 But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

    36 Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group, but they treated them the same way.

  • Mark 15:25
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    25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified Him.

  • Mark 12:1-3
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    1 He began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, built a fence around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and constructed a tower. Then he leased it to farmers and went on a journey.

    2 At the appointed time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

    3 But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

  • Acts 3:1
    70%

    1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer, the ninth hour.

  • Matt 22:5
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    5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

  • Luke 20:15-16
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    15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?'

    16 He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others. When they heard this, they said, 'May it never happen!'

  • Acts 2:15
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    15 'These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!'

  • Matt 21:39-40
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    39 So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    8 So they took him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

    9 What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those farmers, and give the vineyard to others.

  • Mark 11:19
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    19 When evening came, they went out of the city.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3 Listen! A sower went out to sow.

  • Matt 22:3
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    3 He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

  • Matt 9:37-38
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    37 Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.'

    38 Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field.

  • John 4:38
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    38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

  • Luke 21:38
    67%

    38 And all the people would get up early in the morning to come to him in the temple to hear him.

  • Mark 1:20
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    20 Immediately, he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired workers and followed him.

  • Matt 26:44
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    44 So He left them and went away once more and prayed a third time, saying the same thing.

  • Luke 12:38
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    38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them prepared, those servants will be blessed.

  • Mark 14:41
    67%

    41 Returning the third time, he said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

  • Matt 20:19
    66%

    19 And they will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to flog, and to crucify him; and on the third day, he will rise again.