021:020 When the disciples saw it they exclaimed in astonishment,
"How instantaneously the fig-tree has withered away!"
021:021 "I solemnly tell you," said Jesus, "that if you have an
unwavering faith, you shall not only perform such a miracle
as this of the fig-tree, but that even if you say to
this mountain, `Be thou lifted up and hurled into the sea,'
it shall be done;
021:022 and everything, whatever it be, that you ask for in your prayers,
if you have faith, you shall obtain."
021:023 He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching,
the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him
and asked Him, "By what authority are you doing these things?
and who gave you this authority?"
021:024 "And I also have a question to ask *you*," replied Jesus,
"and if you answer me, I in turn will tell you by what authority
I do these things.
021:025 John's Baptism, whence was it?--had it a heavenly or a
human origin?" So they debated the matter among themselves.
"If we say `a heavenly origin,'" they argued, "he will say,
`Why then did you not believe him?'
021:026 and if we say `a human origin' we have the people to fear,
for they all hold John to have been a Prophet."
021:027 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." "Nor do I tell you,"
He replied, "by what authority I do these things."
021:028 "But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons.
He came to the elder of them, and said, "`My son, go and work
in the vineyard to-day.'
021:029 "`I will not,' he replied. "But afterwards he was sorry, and went.
021:030 He came to the second and spoke in the same manner.
His answer was, "`I will go, Sir.' "But he did not go.