Matthew 20:3 Cross References - Darby

³ And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;

¹⁵ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

⁴⁹ Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

¹⁶ But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions, ¹⁷ say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

⁶ But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? ⁷ They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].

²⁵ And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

¹⁵ for these are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;

¹⁷ He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with. ¹⁸ But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them]. ¹⁹ And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]? ²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean. ²¹ Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.

¹³ And, at the same time, they learn also [to be] idle, going about to people`s houses; and not only idle, but also gossipers and meddlers, speaking things not becoming.

¹² that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.