Catholic Public Domain Version
"Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’ "
— Matthew 20:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?”
“And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? ”
“About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'”
“And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them,‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’”
“But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?”
“And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?”
“And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?”
And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
And he said to them, ‘You may go into my vineyard, too, and what I will give you will be just.’
So they went forth. But again, he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and he acted similarly.
Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, ‘Why have you stood here idle all day?’
They say to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also may go into my vineyard.’
And when evening had arrived, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last, even to the first.’
And so, when those who had arrived about the eleventh hour came forward, each received a single denarius.