“Whether of them twain did the will of his father?They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them,Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”
Matthew 21:31 (KJV)
Context Reading
29He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31Whether of them twain did the will of his father?They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them,Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. 33¶ Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: