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.
31. "Which one of these two did his father’s will?" They said, "The first one." Jesus said to them, “I assure you that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering God’s kingdom ahead of you.
32. For John came to you on the righteous road, and you didn’t believe him. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. Yet even after you saw this, you didn’t change your hearts and lives and you didn’t believe him.
33. “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it to tenant farmers and took a trip.
34. When it was time for harvest, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit.
35. But the tenant farmers grabbed his servants. They beat some of them, and some of them they killed. Some of them they stoned to death.
36. “Again he sent other servants, more than the first group. They treated them in the same way.
37. Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
38. “But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let’s kill him and we’ll have his inheritance.’