Matthew 20:2-7

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.’

[20:2]  ¹ tn Grk “agreeing with the workers for a denarius a day.”

[20:3]  ² tn Grk “about the third hour.”

[20:5]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[20:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “he went out again about the sixth and ninth hour.”

[20:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “about the eleventh hour.”