馬太福音 20:3

3 約 在 巳 初 出 去 ， 看 見 市 上 還 有 閒 站 的 人 ，

馬太福音 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.

馬太福音 20:3 In-Context

1 因 為 天 國 好 像 家 主 清 早 去 雇 人 進 他 的 葡 萄 園 做 工 ，

2 和 工 人 講 定 一 天 一 錢 銀 子 ， 就 打 發 他 們 進 葡 萄 園 去 。

3 約 在 巳 初 出 去 ， 看 見 市 上 還 有 閒 站 的 人 ，

4 就 對 他 們 說 ： 你 們 也 進 葡 萄 園 去 ， 所 當 給 的 ， 我 必 給 你 們 。 他 們 也 進 去 了 。

5 約 在 午 正 和 申 初 又 出 去 ， 也 是 這 樣 行 。