In Context

26 and if we should say, From men, we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.'

27 And answering Jesus they said, 'We have not known.' He said to them — he also — 'Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

28 'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

29 And he answering said, 'I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

30 And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go, sir, and went not;

31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, 'The first.' Jesus saith to them, 'Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

Matthew 21:29 in Other Translations