Matthew 21:32

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Matthew 21:30–34 · Berean Standard Bible

30 Then the man went to the second son and told him the same thing. ‘I will, sir,’ he said. But he did not go.

31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

32 For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

33 Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

34 When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

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Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea

Matthew 3:2

and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Matthew 3:3

This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

Matthew 3:4

John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:5

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

Matthew 3:6

Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Matthew 3:7

But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 3:8

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.

Isaiah 35:8

And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

Luke 3:8

Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Luke 3:9

The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Luke 3:10

The crowds asked him, “What then should we do?”

Luke 3:11

John replied, “Whoever has two tunics should share with him who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”

Luke 3:12

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

Luke 3:13

“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.

2 Peter 2:21

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

Matthew 21:25

What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Matthew 11:18

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

Luke 7:29

All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

John 5:33

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

John 5:34

Even though I do not accept human testimony, I say these things so that you may be saved.

John 5:35

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

John 5:36

But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

Acts 13:25

As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But He is coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’

Acts 13:26

Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Acts 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Acts 13:28

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

Acts 13:29

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

Luke 7:37

When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

Luke 7:38

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

Luke 7:40

But Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, Teacher,” he said.

Luke 7:41

“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

Luke 7:42

When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

Luke 7:43

“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

Luke 7:44

And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

Luke 7:45

You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.

Luke 7:46

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with perfume.

Luke 7:47

Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

Luke 7:48

Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Luke 7:49

But those at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

Luke 7:50

And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Psalms 81:11

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

John 5:37

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,

John 5:38

nor does His word abide in you, because you do not believe the One He sent.

John 5:39

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

John 5:40

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

2 Timothy 2:25

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.

Hebrews 6:7

For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Revelation 2:21

Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.