20:2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, 1 he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, 2 he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.
20:4 He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’
20:5 So they went. When 3 he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, 4 he did the same thing.
20:6 And about five o’clock that afternoon 5 he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’
20:7 They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’
1 tnGrk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”
2 tnGrk “about the third hour.”
3 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
4 tnGrk “he went out again about the sixth and ninth hour.”