Matthew 21:28-32

“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘ Son, go work today in the vineyard.’

But he replied, ‘I do not want to.’ Yet afterward he regretted it and went.

And the man came to his second son and said the same thing; and he replied, ‘I will, sir’; and yet he did not go.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even have second thoughts afterward so as to believe him. Parable of the Landowner