Matthew 20:6 meaning and explanation
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.
Matthew 20:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus is telling a parable about the kingdom of heaven, and here the landowner makes his final trip to the marketplace. The eleventh hour was near the end of the working day, roughly five in the afternoon, so these men had waited all day without being hired.
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