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He said to them, ‘You also go into my vineyard and I will give you what is just.’ When he went out again around noon and at three in the afternoon,[a] he did the same. Then, about five o’clock,[b] he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 20:5 Noon . . . three in the afternoon: literally, “the sixth hour . . . the ninth hour.”
  2. Matthew 20:6 Five o’clock: literally, “the eleventh hour.”

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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