Matthew 20:3 · American Standard Version
Matthew 20:3 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 20:3 in Other Translations
| KJV | And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, |
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| WEB | 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; |
| YLT | ‘And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, |
| WBT | And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market-place, |
| DBY | And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle; |
Commentary on Matthew 20:3
Expositions from classic Bible commentators.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 20:3
And he went out about the third hour--about nine o'clock, or after a fourth of the working day had expired: the day of twelve hours was reckoned from six to six.
and saw others standing idle in the market place--unemployed.
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Questions about Matthew 20:3
What does Matthew 20:3 say?
Matthew 20:3 in the American Standard Version reads: “And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;” Read it in the full context of Matthew 20, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 20:3 found in the Bible?
Matthew 20:3 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 20, verse 3, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 20:3 shown in?
This is the American Standard Version (ASV), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Matthew 20:3 in the table on this page.
And he went out about the third hour,.... About nine o'clock in the morning,
and saw others standing idle in the market place: the place where labourers used to be hired: and may design the world, because a place full of people, and of great wickedness, for the whole world lies in it; a place of trade and traffic in worldly things, and likewise of worldly and carnal pleasure, and also of idleness. Now God's elect before calling, are in this place: they are natives of it, have their conversation according to it: here Christ came in person, and here he sends his ministers, his Gospel, to find them out, and by his Spirit and grace he calls them from hence; so that afterwards they are no more of it, though they are in it: but before conversion they belong to it, and their posture then is standing idle; being sluggish, and slothful in business, unwilling to work, and afraid of a little danger and trouble, sauntering away their time in carnal pleasures, and so clothed with rags, and in a starving, famishing condition: but Christ's eye is upon them; he observes, and takes notice of them in this disagreeable position and situation, and speaks of them in the following manner.