The Parable of the Two Sons

Matthew 21

²⁸ "But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, 'Son, go, work today in my _d vineyard.' ²⁹ "He answered and said, 'I will not,' but afterward he regretted it and went. ³⁰ "Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I go, sir,' but he did not go. ³¹ "Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, _e "Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. ³² "For _f John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; _g but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward ₁ relent and believe him.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 20:1
   For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
   Matthew 21:33
   Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
   
2. Cross References
   Luke 7:29
   And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
   Luke 7:37 - 50
   And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil.
   
3. Cross References
   Luke 3:1 - 12
   Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene.
   Luke 7:29
   And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 3:12
   Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?
   Luke 3:13
   And he said to them, "Collect no more than what is appointed for you.