Then between three and six o'clock in the morning Jesus came walking to them on the [surface of the] lake.

He went out about nine o'clock in the morning and saw other unemployed laborers standing [around] in the open shopping market.

[Then] he went out again about noon and again at three o'clock in the afternoon and made the same offer.

[Finally] he went out [once more] at about five o'clock in the afternoon and found [still] other men standing around. He said, 'Why have you been standing around all day and not working?'

So, when those hired about five o'clock in the afternoon came in, each one received the usual pay for one full day's work. [See note on verse 2].

Now from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon there was darkness over all the land.