Tuesday, Parable of the Two Sons

Jesus and His disciples were in Jerusalem in the temple courts, and Jesus was teaching the people. Jesus was still speaking with the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people (the elders being the Sanhedrin; the Jewish council). And Jesus had just refused to tell the Jewish leaders by what authority He did the things that He did.

“But what do you think of this?” Jesus asked. He then told them a parable. “There was a man that had two sons. The man also had a vineyard. And he went to the first son and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

“The first son replied, ‘I will not.’ But later he changed his mind and went to the vineyard.

“Then the man went to the second son and told him the same thing: ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’

“The second son said, ‘I will, sir.’ But he did not go.”

Then Jesus asked them, “Which of the two sons did the will of his father?”

“The first,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.”

See Matthew 21:28-32

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