Matthew 20:3

World English Bible (2000)

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

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  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Ezek 16:49 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  • Matt 11:16-17 : 16 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions 17 and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'
  • Matt 20:6-7 : 6 About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?' 7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'
  • Mark 15:25 : 25 It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
  • Acts 17:17-21 : 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached 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, which is spoken by you? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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  • Matt 20:4-14
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    90%

    4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

    5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

    6 About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

    7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

    8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

    9 "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

    10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

    11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

    12 saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

    13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?

    14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

  • Matt 20:1-2
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    1 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

    2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

  • Matt 21:28-30
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    28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

    29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

    30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.

  • Luke 20:9-13
    5 verses
    73%

    9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

    10 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

    11 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

    12 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

    13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

  • Matt 21:33-36
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    33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

    34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

    35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

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

  • Mark 15:25
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    25 It was the third hour, and 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, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

    3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

  • Acts 3:1
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    1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

  • Matt 22:5
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    5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

  • Luke 20:15-16
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    15 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

    16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

  • Acts 2:15
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    15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

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

    40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    68%

    8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

    9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

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

  • Mark 4:3
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    3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

  • Matt 22:3
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    3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

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

    38 Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."

  • John 4:38
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    38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

  • Luke 21:38
    67%

    38 All the people came early in the morning 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 servants, and went after him.

  • Matt 26:44
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    44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

  • Luke 12:38
    67%

    38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

  • Mark 14:41
    67%

    41 He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

  • Matt 20:19
    66%

    19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up."