e answering
said: I go, Sir. And he went not.

21:31. Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The
first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you that the publicans and the
harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you.

21:32. For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not
believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you,
seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

21:33. Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who
planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press
and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange
country.

21:34. And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants
to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof.

21:35. And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one and
killed another and stoned another.

21:36. Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did
to them in like manner.

21:37. And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will
reverence my son.

21:38. But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is
the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance.

21:39. And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard and
killed him.

21:40. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he
do to those husbandmen?

21:41. They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and
let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit
in due season.

21:42. Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The
stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the
corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

21:43. Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken
from you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

21:44. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on
whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

21:45. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables,
they knew that he spoke of them.

21:46. And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes,
because they held him as a prophet.

Matthew Chapter 22

The parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to
Caesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment
in the la