Matthew 20:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ Then, on going out at nine o'clock he noticed some other labourers standing in the marketplace doing nothing;

¹⁶ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplace, who call to their playmates, ¹⁷ 'We piped to you and you would not dance, we lamented and you would not beat your breasts.'

⁶ And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?' ⁷ 'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

²⁵ It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

¹⁵ these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning!

¹⁷ He argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout proselytes and also in the marketplace daily with those who chanced to be present. ¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also came across him. Some said, "Whatever does the fellow mean with his scraps of learning'?" Others said, "He looks like a herald of foreign deities" (this was because he preached 'Jesus' and 'the Resurrection'). ¹⁹ Then taking him to the Areopagus they asked, "May we know what is this novel teaching of yours? ²⁰ You talk of some things that sound strange to us; so we want to know what they mean." ²¹ (For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)

¹³ Besides, they become idle unconsciously by gadding about from one house to another — and not merely idle but gossips and busybodies, repeating things they have no right to mention.

¹² so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.