24. But Jesus answered and said to them, “I also will ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things:
25. The baptism of John—where was it from? From heaven or from men?”And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
26. But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all count John as a prophet.”
27. So they answered Jesus and said, “We do not know.”And He said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28. “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’
29. He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went.
30. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go.