And to those people he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.’ So they went. Going out[a] again about the sixth and ninth hour he did the same thing. And about the eleventh hour he went out and[b] found others standing there and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:5 Some manuscripts have “And going out”
  2. Matthew 20:6 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went out”) has been translated as a finite verb

He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

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