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and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'
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And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:
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the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'
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And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
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and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
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And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],
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and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'
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And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,
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and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.
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`And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;
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and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.