3 And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I  also -- one thing, and tell me:
         
                                
                        4 the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?`
         
                                
                        5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may  say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not  believe him?
         
                                
                        6 and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us,  for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.`
         
                                
                        7 And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],
         
                                
                        8 and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what  authority I do these things.`
         
                                
                        9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A  certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen,  and went abroad for a long time,