21. Jesus responded, "I assure you that if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree. You will even say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the lake.’ And it will happen.
22. If you have faith, you will receive whatever you pray for."
23. When Jesus entered the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching. They asked, "What kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority?"
24. Jesus replied, "I have a question for you. If you tell me the answer, I’ll tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things.
25. Where did John get his authority to baptize? Did he get it from heaven or from humans?" They argued among themselves, "If we say ‘from heaven,’ he’ll say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
26. But we can’t say ‘from humans’ because we’re afraid of the crowd, since everyone thinks John was a prophet."
27. Then they replied, "We don’t know." Jesus also said to them, “Neither will I tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things.
28. “What do you think? A man had two sons. Now he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29. “‘No, I don’t want to,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.
30. “The father said the same thing to the other son, who replied, ‘Yes, sir.’ But he didn’t go.