3. Jesus answered them, “Now let me ask you a question. Tell me,
4. did John's right to baptize come from God or from human beings?”
5. They started to argue among themselves, “What shall we say? If we say, ‘From God,’ he will say, ‘Why, then, did you not believe John?’
6. But if we say ‘From human beings,’ this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
7. So they answered, “We don't know where it came from.”
8. And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.”
9. Then Jesus told the people this parable: “There was once a man who planted a vineyard, let it out to tenants, and then left home for a long time.