“About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 20 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.