“And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,”
And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. The third hour (about 9 AM) finds more unemployed workers in the marketplace. The idle standing is not laziness but unemployment: they are available for work but have not been hired. The master who goes out repeatedly through the day is the landlord who is maximizing his vineyard's productivity by hiring whoever is available.
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