Matthew 20:3 Cross References

Matthew 20:3

3: "At nine o'clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing.

Besides, they are likely to become lazy and spend their time gossiping from house to house, getting into other people's business and saying things they shouldn't.

Sodom's sins were pride, laziness, and gluttony, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.

At five o'clock that evening he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, 'Why haven't you been working today?'
"They replied, 'Because no one hired us.'"The owner of the estate told them, 'Then go on out and join the others in my vineyard.'

"How shall I describe this generation? These people are like a group of children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends,
'We played wedding songs, and you weren't happy, so we played funeral songs, but you weren't sad.'

He went to the synagogue to debate with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and he spoke daily in the public square to all who happened to be there.
He also had a debate with some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers. When he told them about Jesus and his resurrection, they said, "This babbler has picked up some strange ideas." Others said, "He's pushing some foreign religion."
Then they took him to the Council of Philosophers. "Come and tell us more about this new religion," they said.
"You are saying some rather startling things, and we want to know what it's all about."
(It should be explained that all the Athenians as well as the foreigners in Athens seemed to spend all their time discussing the latest ideas.)

Some of you are saying these people are drunk. It isn't true! It's much too early for that. People don't get drunk by nine o'clock in the morning.

Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God's promises because of their faith and patience.

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