Matthew 20
READ Matthew 20 COMMENTARY: : 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them “Why stand you here all the day idle? (692 “idle” [argos] means lazy, useless, unemployed, careless, ineffective, indolent, slothful, or living without labor.) DEVOTION: There is only one hour left to work in the day. The householder still sees people who want to work standing around idle. They have not been hired. They had come late in the day to be hired. They want to have some money but didn’t get up early to earn the money they needed. There could be some good excuses why they weren’t there at the beginning of the work day but they were there now. The household owner still hired them to do work and offered them what he thought was fair…



