The Turker’s Gospel

The Bible According To Mechanical Turk Workers

Matthew 21:21-30

21:21 - Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, if you have true faith and no doubt, you can do more than just what you have seen here with the fig tree — you could ask a mountain to move into the sea and it will be done.

21:22 - Whatever one asks in prayer, if they believe, they will receive.

21:23 - And when Jesus came into the temple, the chief priests and other church officials went to him while he taught and said, By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you the authority?

21:24 - Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you one thing, and if you tell me, I will tell you what authority allows me to do these things.

21:25 - When was John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or men? And they told themselves: If we say from heaven, he’ll ask us Why didn’t you beleive him then?

21:26 - It might be said of men that we fear other people, after all John was known as a prophet.

21:27 - And they answered Jesus and said, We don’t know. And he said, Then I won’t tell you by what authority it is that I do these things.

21:28 - What to think? A man with two sons went to the first son and told him to go work in the vineyard.

21:29 - He said he wouldn’t, but then changed his mind, and went.

21:30 - And he arrived at the 2nd and said the same. And he answered I go sir, but he didn’t go.