Matthew 20:6 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

WEB

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

YLT

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

DBT

But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

About this book

New Testament

▾

Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 20 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Featured studies

loading…

Cross-references

11 verses on the floor

John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Acts 17:21
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Matthew 20:9
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

Show all 11 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

); and here it will be asked, as usual, [1.] Who hires them? A man that is a householder. God is the great Householder, whose we are, and whom we serve; as a householder, he has work that he will have to be done, and servants that he will have to be doing; he has a great family in heaven and earth, which is named from Jesus Christ ( Eph. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

There is hope for old sinners; for if, in sincerity, they turn to God, they shall doubtless be accepted; true repentance is never too late. There is hope of old sinners, that they may be brought to true repentance; nothing is too hard for Almighty grace to do, it can change the Ethiopian's skin, and the leopard's spots; can set those to work, who have contracted a habit of idleness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Choose ye this day whom ye will serve. Secondly, Till we are hired into the service of God, we are standing all the day idle; a sinful state, though a state of drudgery to Satan, may really be called a state of idleness; sinners are doing nothing, nothing to the purpose, nothing of the great work they were sent into the world about, nothing that will pass well in the account.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

On this verse

loading…

Words6

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G6928× in canon G560261× in canon G3650109× in canon G2476153× in canon G243155× in canon G2147175× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAT 20:6JHN 9:4 EPH 5:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 20:6JHN 9:4 JHN 12:35
MAT 20:6JHN 9:4 JHN 4:34
MAT 20:6JHN 9:4 ECC 9:10
MAT 20:6JHN 9:4 JHN 11:9-10
MAT 20:6HEB 6:12 HEB 13:7
MAT 20:6HEB 6:12 HEB 10:36
MAT 20:6HEB 6:12 ROM 12:11

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Matthew 20 →