New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Matthew 20:6
Compare this verse across Bible translations. BLB includes New Testament text only (publisher draft).
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
World English Bible
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
American Standard Version
And about the eleventh [hour] he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
Berean Literal Bible
And about the eleventh, having gone out, he found others standing, and he says to them, ‘Why do you⁺ stand here all the day idle?’
READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Matthew 20
4 ‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’
5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
7 ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
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