Bible verse
About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
Matthew 20:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 20.
1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
4 ‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’
5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
7 ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
KJV
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
ASV
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;
ERV
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;
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