pass, he shall have it. (24)Therefore I say
to you: All things whatever ye ask, when ye pray, believe that ye
received, and ye shall have them.

(25)And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any
one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your
trespasses. (26)But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who
is in heaven forgive your trespasses[11:26].

(27)And they come again into Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the
temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the
elders. (28)And they said to him: By what authority doest thou these
things? And who gave thee this authority, to do these things? (29)And
Jesus answering said to them: I also will ask you one thing; and
answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
(30)John's immersion, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.
(31)And they reasoned among themselves, saying: (32)If we say, from
heaven; he will say, why then did ye not believe him? But shall we say
from men? They feared the people; for all held that John was verily a
prophet. (33)And answering they say to Jesus: We do not know. And
Jesus says to them: Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do
these things.

XII.

AND he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard,
and set a hedge about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and
let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. (2)And at the season he
sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the
husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard. (3)And they took him and
beat him, and sent him away empty. (4)And again he sent to them
another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the
head, and sent him away shamefully treated. (5)And he sent another;
and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
(6)Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent him also to them
last, saying: They will reverence my son. (7)But those husbandmen said
among themselves: This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the
inheritance will be ours. (8)And they took, and killed him, and cast
him out of the vineyard. (9)What therefore will the lord of the
vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give
the vineyard to others. (10)And have ye not read this scripture:

The stone which the builders disallowed,
The same is become the head of the corner;
(11)This is from the Lord, and is wonde