And when He came into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching and said, By what authority do You do these things? And who gave You this authority?

And Jesus answered and said to them, I also will ask you one  ¹thing, which if you tell Me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.

The baptism of John, from where did it come, from heaven or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, He will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?

But if we say, From men, we fear the crowd, for all hold John as a prophet.

And they answered Jesus and said, We do  ¹not know. He too said to them,  ²Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

But what do you think? A man had two children. And he came to his first son and said, Child, go today and work in the vineyard.

And he answered and said, I do not want to; yet later he regretted and went.

And he came to the other and said likewise. And he answered and said, I will, sir; yet he did not go.

Which of the two did the will of the father? They said, The  ¹first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the harlots are going into the kingdom of God before you.

For John came to you in the way of  ¹righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him. And you, when you saw it, did not later regret it to believe him.

Hear another parable. There was a man, a householder, who planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower; and he leased it out to  ¹vinedressers and went abroad.

And when the time to harvest the fruit drew near, he sent his  ¹slaves to the vinedressers to get his fruit.

And the vinedressers took his slaves and  ¹beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Again, he sent some other slaves, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.

Then later he sent to them his  ¹son, saying, They will respect my son.

But the vinedressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves,  ¹This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take possession of his inheritance.

And they took him and cast him  ¹out of the vineyard and killed him.

Therefore when the master of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?

They said to Him, He will miserably  ¹destroy those evil men and will lease the vineyard to  ²other vinedressers, who will give the fruit to him in their seasons.

Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures, “The  ¹stone which the builders rejected, this has become the  ²head of the corner. This was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes”?

Therefore I say to you that the  ¹kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a  ²nation producing its fruit.

And  ¹he who falls on this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on  ²whomever it falls, it shall crush him to powder and scatter him like chaff.

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking concerning them.

And though they sought to seize Him, they feared the crowds because they held Him as a prophet.

In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

And when they had journeyed from Rephidim and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped in front of the mountain.

And Moses  ¹went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel:

You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on  ¹eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.

Now therefore if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My  ¹personal treasure from among all peoples, for all the earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a  ¹kingdom of priests and a  ¹holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.

So Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him.

And all the people answered together and said,  ¹All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah.

And Jehovah said to Moses, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever. Then Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah,

And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and  ¹sanctify them today and tomorrow; and have them wash their garments,

And be ready for the  ¹third day; for on the third day Jehovah will come down on  ²Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

And you shall set  ¹limits for the people all around, saying, Be careful that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up on the mountain.

And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.

And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not go near a woman.

And on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet sound; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the base of the mountain.

Now the whole of Mount Sinai smoked because Jehovah descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly.

And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him  ¹in thunder.

And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain, and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go down; charge the people not to break through to Jehovah to look, lest many of them perish.

And let the priests who come near to Jehovah also sanctify themselves, so that Jehovah does not break forth upon them.

And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You charged us, saying, Set limits around the mountain, and sanctify it.

And Jehovah said to him, Go, get down; then you shall come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people force a way through to come up to Jehovah, so that He does not break forth upon them.

So Moses went down to the people and told them.

And God spoke all these  ¹words, saying,

I am  ¹Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;

You shall have no other gods  ¹before Me.

You shall not make for yourself an  ¹idol, nor the  ²form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.

You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Yet showing lovingkindness to  ¹thousands of generations of those who  ²love Me and keep My commandments.

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.

Remember the  ¹Sabbath day so as to sanctify it.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

But the seventh day is a Sabbath  ¹to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your male servant nor your female servant, nor your cattle nor the sojourner with you, who is within your gates.

For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be extended upon the land which  ¹Jehovah your God is giving you.

 ¹You shall not kill.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not testify with false testimony against your neighbor.

You shall not  ¹covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.

And all the people witnessed the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people witnessed it, they  ¹trembled and stood at a distance.

And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak with us, so we do not die.

And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you and in order that the fear of Him may be before you, so that you do not sin.

And the people stood at a distance, and Moses drew near to the deep darkness where God was.

And Jehovah said to Moses,  ¹Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that I have  ²spoken to you from heaven.

You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of  ¹silver or gods of  ¹gold, you shall not make for yourselves.

An  ¹altar of  ²earth you shall make for Me, and you shall  ¹sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My  ³name to be remembered, I will  ⁴come to you and  ⁴bless you.

And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool upon them, you have  ¹polluted them.

Neither shall you go up by  ¹steps to My altar, so that your  ²nakedness may not be uncovered on it.

Now these are the  ¹ordinances which you shall set before them.

If you buy a Hebrew  ¹servant, he shall serve six years; but in the seventh he shall go out  ²free without payment to you.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

But if the servant plainly says, I  ¹love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free;

Then his master shall bring him to  ¹God and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his  ²ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.