Matthew 20:3 Cross References - Worsley

³ and going out about the third hour he saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing,

¹⁶ But to what shall I compare this generation? they are like children sitting in the market-places, ¹⁷ and calling to their companions, and saying "We have sung and ye have not danced; we have mourned, and ye have not lamented:"

⁶ And going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing without work, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day doing nothing? ⁷ They say unto him, because no one hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatever is reasonable ye shall receive.

²⁵ And it was the third hour, when they fixed Him on the cross:

¹⁵ for these men are not drunk, as ye suppose; for it is but the third hour of the day.

¹⁷ He therefore disputed in the synagogue with the Jews and other devout persons on the sabbath-day, and with whomsoever he met in public every day. ¹⁸ But some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him; and some said, What would this babler say? and others, He seemeth to be a proclaimer of foreign deities: because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And they took and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, May we know what this new doctrine is, of which thou speakest? ²⁰ For thou bringest strange things to our ears; we would therefore know what these things mean. ²¹ (Now all the Athenians, and strangers sojourning among them, spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear something new.)

¹³ And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tatlers also and busy-bodies, talking of things unbecoming them.

¹² that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.