6"He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'


In Context

3 "About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

4 He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.'

5 So they went.

6 "He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'

7 " 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.'

8 "When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.'

Matthew 20:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:6But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6But about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6And 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why stand you here all the day idle?