24. And Jesus answering said to them, `I will ask you--I also--one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;
25. 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?
26. and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'
27. 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.
28. `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.'
29. And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.
30. `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I [go], sir, and went not;
31. 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,