26. But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the crowd, because they all look upon John as a prophet.”
27. And they answered and said to Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
28. “Now what do you think? A man had two sons. He approached the first and said, ‘Son, go work in the vineyard today.’
29. And he answered and said, ‘I do not want to!’ But later he changed his mind and went.
30. And he approached the second and said the same thing. So he answered and said, ‘I will, sir,’ and he did not go.
31. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
32. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And when you saw it, you did not even change your minds later so as to believe in him.
33. “Listen to another parable: There was a man—a master of a house—who planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
34. And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit.
35. And the tenant farmers seized his slaves, one of whom they beat, and one of whom they killed, and one of whom they stoned.
36. Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first ones, and they did the same thing to them.