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15 But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the wonders that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, were much displeased,
16 and said to him: Dost thou hear what these say? And Jesus says to them: Yea; did ye never read: From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou preparedst praise?
17 And leaving them, he went forth out of the city into Bethany, and lodged there.
18 And in the morning, as he was returning into the city, he hungered.
19 And seeing a fig-tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only. And he says to it: Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward, forever. And immediately the fig-tree withered away.
20 And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How did the fig-tree immediately wither away?
21 And Jesus answering said to them: Verily I say to you, if ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only shall ye do what is done to the fig-tree, but even if ye say to this mountain, be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done.
22 And all things whatever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
23 And when he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said: By what authority doest thou these things; and who gave thee this authority?
24 And Jesus answering said to them: I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I too will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25 John's immersion, whence was it? From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying: If we say, From heaven, he will say to us: Why then did ye not believe him?
26 But if we say, From men, we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet.
27 And they answered Jesus, saying: We do not know. And he said to them: Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these things.
28 But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said: Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.
29 And he answering said: I will not; but afterward he repented, and went.
30 And he came to the other, and said likewise. And he answering said: I will, sir; and went not.
31 Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus says to them: Verily I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.