Matthew 20:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ About ·nine o’clock [^Lthe third hour] the man went to the marketplace and saw some other people standing there, doing nothing. ⁴ So he said to them, ‘If you go and work in my vineyard, I will pay you ·what your work is worth [^Lwhatever is right].’ ⁵ So they went to work in the vineyard. The man went out again about ·twelve o’clock and three o’clock [^Lthe sixth and ninth hour] and did the same thing.