Mateo 20:3

3 Y salió como a la hora tercera , y vio parados en la plaza a otros que estaban sin trabajo;

Mateo 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 20:3

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.

Mateo 20:3 In-Context

1 Porque el reino de los cielos es semejante a un hacendado que salió muy de mañana para contratar obreros para su viña.

2 Y habiendo convenido con los obreros en un denario al día, los envió a su viña.

3 Y salió como a la hora tercera , y vio parados en la plaza a otros que estaban sin trabajo;

4 y a éstos les dijo: "Id también vosotros a la viña, y os daré lo que sea justo." Y ellos fueron.

5 Volvió a salir como a la hora sexta y a la novena , e hizo lo mismo.

Footnotes

• [a] I.e., las nueve de la maana