Matthew 20:7
5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
9 The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
- KJV
- They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
- WEB
- “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.’
- ASV
- They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.
- DARBY
- They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].
- BLB
- They say to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He says to them, ‘You⁺ also go into the vineyard.’
- ÅB
- De svarte ham: ‘Fordi ingen har leid oss’. Han sa til dem: ‘Gå bort til vingården dere også!’
- OTB
- De svarte: 'Fordi ingen har leid oss.' Han sa til dem: 'Gå også dere inn i vingården.'
- B1930
- De sa til ham: Fordi ingen har leid oss. Han sa til dem: Gå også I bort til vingården!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 2:11–12
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
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Read in contextLuke 14:21–23
The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’
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