588th Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables About First Shall Be Last Con't. - Parable of the Laborer's Wages Con't. 3rd. Post Matthew 20: 1 - 16.

Matthew 20: 1 - 16 Parable of The Laborer's Wages Continued 3rd Post.
We left last post with the first group of laborers leaving to go into the vineyard early in the day.  The parable continues with the landowner going out about the third hour, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.  The landowner finds more people standing idle and offers them a job of working in his vineyard and this time the landowner says whatever is right I will pay you. The laborers go to work in the vineyard.  Again at the sixth and ninth hour the landowner went out and did likewise.  The sixth hour is Noon to 3:00 pm; and the ninth hour, 3:00 pm to sunset.  The landowner hired all who were idle and wanted to work, and they went, meaning they agreed to the terms of the arrangement.  The landowner goes out at the eleventh hour and found others standing idle, and he said to them,"Why are you standing here idle all day?"  They said to him "Because no one has hired us."  The landowner said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive."  Not sure when the eleventh hour is, because the ninth hour is from 3:00 pm to sunset. Further on in this parable Jesus says toward evening the landowner tells his foreman to pay the workers,  so the eleventh hour has to be between sunset and evening; starting with the last, to be paid first. More on the eleventh hour in my next post.