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1 ^21:23AND Jesus having gone into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority? ^21:24Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you one question, which, if you tell me, I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ^21:25Whence was the baptism of John? from heaven or from men? And they reasoned within themselves, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say to us, Why did you not believe him? ^21:26But if we say from men, we fear the multitude, for all regard John as a prophet. ^21:27And they answered Jesus, and said, We do not know. And he said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

2 ^21:28But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first, and said, Son, go and work to-day in the vineyard. ^21:29But he answered and said, I will not; but afterwards he repented, and went. ^21:30And he came to the other, and said the same. And he answered and said, I will go sir, but went not. ^21:31Which of the two did the will of the father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them, I tell you truly, that the publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. ^21:32For John came to you in a way of righteousness, and you believed him not; but the publicans and harlots believed him; and when you saw this, you did not afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

3 ^21:33Hear another parable: There was a man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge around it, and dug a wine vat in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. ^21:34And when the time of the fruits approached he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive his fruits. ^21:35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. ^21:36Again he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them in the same manner. ^21:37And afterwards he sent them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. ^21:38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and take his inheritance. ^21:39And they took him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. ^21:40When, therefore, the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those husbandmen? ^21:41They said to him, He will inflict on those men a miserable death, and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

4 ^21:42Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of a corner? this is from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes? ^21:43I tell you, therefore, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation yielding its fruits.

5 ^21:45And the chief priests and Pharisees hearing his parables, knew that he spoke of them; ^21:46and they sought to take him, but feared the people, because they regarded him as a prophet.