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“The father said the same thing to the other son, who replied, ‘Yes, sir.' But he didn't go.
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" 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.
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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.
Parable of the tenant farmers
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.
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When it was time for harvest, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit.
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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.
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“Again he sent other servants, more than the first group. They treated them in the same way.
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Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,' he said.
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“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.'
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They grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
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" When the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?"