Matthew 20:3 Cross References - Worrell

³ "And, going forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

¹⁶ "But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who, calling to the others, ¹⁷ say, 'We piped to you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not lament.'

⁶ And about the eleventh hour, going forth, he found others standing, and he says to them, 'Why stand ye here all the day idle?' ⁷ They say to him, 'Because no man hired us.' He says to them, 'Go ye also into the vineyard.'

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

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

¹⁷ So, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met him. ¹⁸ And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were encountering him. And some said, "What would this babbler wish to say?" And others said, He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods;" because he proclaimed the good tidings of Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ And, laying hold of him, they led him upon Mars Hill, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, that is being spoken by you! ²⁰ for you bring to our ears certain strange things; we wish, therefore, to know what these things mean." ²¹ Now all Athenians and the sojourning foreigners were wont to spend their leisure in nothing else, than either to tell or to hear something new.

¹³ And, at the same time, they learn to be idle, going around from house to house, and not only idle, but tattlers also and busy-bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.