19. Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came up to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree shriveled up at once.
20. When the disciples saw it they were astonished. “How did the fig tree shrivel on the spot?” they asked.
21. Yeshua answered them, “Amen, I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
22. And whatever you ask in prayer, trusting, you shall receive.”
23. Now when He entered the Temple, the ruling kohanim and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, saying, “By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority?”
24. Yeshua replied to them, “I also will ask you one question. If you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25. John’s immersion, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They began to dialogue among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
26. But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the crowd, for all hold up John as a prophet.”
27. So answering Yeshua, they said, “We don’t know.” Then He said to them, “Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things.”
28. “Now what do you think? A man had two sons, and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go work in the vineyard today.’
29. The son answered, ‘I won’t,’ but afterward he had a change of heart and went.
30. The man went to the second son and said the same thing. But he answered, ‘I will, sir,’ and didn’t go.
31. Which of the two did the will of the father?” “The first,” they said. Yeshua said to them, “Amen, I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God.
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 even after you saw this, you had no change of heart to believe him.”