About noon and at three,[a] he went out again and did the same thing. Then about five[b] he went and found others standing around,[c] and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’

“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.

“‘You also go to my vineyard,’ he told them.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:5 Lit about the sixth hour and the ninth hour
  2. Matthew 20:6 Lit about the eleventh hour
  3. Matthew 20:6 Other mss add doing nothing
  4. Matthew 20:7 Other mss add ‘and you’ll get whatever is right.’

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