22. “And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”
23. And when He had come into the Set-apart Place, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these? And who gave You this authority?”
24. And יהושע answering, said to them, “I shall ask you one question too, which if you answer Me, I also shall say to you by what authority I do these:
25. “The immersion of Yoḥanan, where did it come from? From heaven or from men?” So they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He shall say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
26. “But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the crowd, for all hold Yoḥanan as a prophet.”
27. And they answered יהושע and said, “We do not know.” And He said to them, “Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these.
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. “And he answering, said, ‘I do not wish to,’ but afterwards he repented and went.