Matt 21:22 "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Matt 21:23 ¶ When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, "By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?"
Matt 21:24 Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.
Matt 21:25 "The baptism of John was from what source, from heaven or from men?" And they began reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'
Matt 21:26 "But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the people; for they all regard John as a prophet."
Matt 21:27 And answering Jesus, they said, "We do not know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
Matt 21:28 ¶ "But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.'
Matt 21:30 "The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, 'I will, sir'; but he did not go.
Matt 21:31 "Which of the two did the will of his father?" They *said, "The first." Jesus *said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.
Matt 21:32 "For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.
Matt 21:33 ¶ "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.
Matt 21:34 "When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.
Matt 21:35 "The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.
Matt 21:36 "Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.
Matt 21:37 "But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
Matt 21:38 "But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.'
Matt 21:39 "They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Matt 21:40 "Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?"
Matt 21:41 They *said to Him, "He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons."
Matt 21:42 ¶ Jesus *said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?