Matthew 21:20-29

20When the disciples saw it they were astonished. “How did the fig tree shrivel on the spot?” they asked.

21Yeshua answered them, “Amen, I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

22And whatever you ask in prayer, trusting, you shall receive.”

23Now when He entered the Temple, the ruling kohanim and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, saying, “By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority?”

24Yeshua replied to them, “I also will ask you one question. If you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

25John’s immersion, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They began to dialogue among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

26But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the crowd, for all hold up John as a prophet.”

27So answering Yeshua, they said, “We don’t know.” Then He said to them, “Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things.”

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

29The son answered, ‘I won’t,’ but afterward he had a change of heart and went.