Matthew 20:5-7

Expanded Bible

⁵ So they went to work in the vineyard. The man went out again about ·twelve o’clock and three o’clock [^Lthe sixth and ninth hour] and did the same thing. ⁶ About ·five o’clock [^Lthe eleventh hour] the man went to the marketplace again and saw others standing there. He asked them, ‘Why did you stand here all day doing nothing?’ ⁷ They answered, ‘No one ·gave us a job [hired us].’ The man said to them, ‘Then you can go and work in my vineyard.’