humans, then the crowds would stone them; but if they said it was from God, then they would be asked why they refused to be baptized by John. Since they did not answer Jesus’s question, he refused to answer theirs. Jesus responded to the leaders by asking another question: “What do you think?” He went on to tell three parables.3 In the first parable Jesus drew a contrast between two sons (Matt 21:28–32). The father in the story approached the first son and asked him to go to work in the vineyard.