Matthew 20:3-7

20:3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, ¹  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 ²  he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, ³  he did the same thing. 20:6 And about five o’clock that afternoon ⁴  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 tn Grk “about the third hour.”

² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³ tn Grk “he went out again about the sixth and ninth hour.”

⁴ tn Grk “about the eleventh hour.”