ye stand praying, forgive, if
ye have a matter against any man: that your Father also who is in
heaven may forgive you your trespasses. (26)But if ye forgive not,
neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

(27)And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the
temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, come to
him, (28)and say to him, By what authority doest thou these things? and
who gave thee this authority, that thou shouldest do these things?
(29)Then Jesus answering said unto them, I also will ask you one
question; and answer me; and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things. (30)The baptism of John, was it of heaven, or of men?
answer me. (31)And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we reply,
From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him? (32)but if
we say of men--they feared the people: for all men held John to be in
truth a prophet. (33)And they answering said to Jesus, We do not know.
And Jesus in reply said to them, Neither do I tell you by what
authority I do these things.

CHAP. XII.

AND he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard,
and set a hedge around it, and digged a wine-press, and built a tower,
and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. (2)And in the season he
sent a servant to the husbandmen, that he might receive from the
husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. (3)But they took him, and beat
him, and sent him away empty. (4)And again he sent unto them another
servant; and they cut the account short with him, by stoning him, and
sent him away shamefully treated. (5)And again he sent another; and
him, they slew; and many others, some of whom they beat, and others
they killed. (6)Now he had yet one son, his beloved, and he sent him
unto them last, saying, They will reverence my son. (7)But these
husbandmen said to each other, This is the heir; come, let us kill him,
and the inheritance will be our own. (8)And they took him, and killed
him, and cast him out of the vineyard. (9)What then will the lord of
the vineyard do? He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and give
his vineyard to others. (10)Have ye never read this scripture? "The
stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the
corner: (11)this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our
eyes." (12)And they sought to seize him, and were afraid of the people:
for they knew that he had spoken this parable aga