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


In Context

3 He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.

5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

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

7 |They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' |He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:6"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?'

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 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?