Matthew 21:28–36

²⁸But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’↗

²⁹He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.↗

³⁰He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.↗

³¹Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them,“Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.↗

³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.↗

³³“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.↗

³⁴When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.↗

³⁵The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.↗

³⁶Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they treated them the same way.↗