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the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
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and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'
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And answering Jesus they said, `We have not known.' He said to them -- he also -- `Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
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`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'
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And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.
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`And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I [go], sir, and went not;
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which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,
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for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
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`Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
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`And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,
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and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.