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Yeshua answered, "I too will ask you a question. If you answer it, then I will tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things.
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The immersion of Yochanan -- where did it come from? From Heaven or from a human source?" They discussed it among themselves: "If we say, `From Heaven,' he will say, `Then why didn't you believe him?'
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But if we say, `From a human source,' we are afraid of the people, for they all regard Yochanan as a prophet."
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So they answered Yeshua, "We don't know." And he replied, "Then I won't tell you by what s'mikhah I do these things.
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"But give me your opinion: a man had two sons. He went to the first and said, `Son, go and work today in the vineyard.'
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He answered, `I don't want to'; but later he changed his mind and went.
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The father went to his other son and said the same thing. This one answered, `I will, sir'; but he didn't go.
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Which of the two did what his father wanted?" "The first," they replied. "That's right!" Yeshua said to them. "I tell you that the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you!
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ForYochanan came to you showing the path to righteousness, and you wouldn't trust him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes trusted him; but you, even after you saw this, didn't change your minds later and trust him.
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"Now listen to another parable. There was a farmer who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower; then he rented it to tenants and left.
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When harvest-time came, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the crop.