Two Prophets and Two Sons: True Authority and True Repentance

In Matt 21:23-32 Jesus is confronted by Jewish leaders over His authority. And Jesus uses this confrontation to both establish His authority and to continue to warn Israel of judgment and the need for repentance and obedient belief. In fact, Jesus uses the confrontation surprisingly promote John the Baptist's baptism and to then present three parables dealing with Israel's failure to respond to God's call and will and the consequences of their failure.

Yet these are lessons and warnings to us of Jesus' authority and our need to repent and believe in Him, with fruits of repentance characterized by seeking to do the will of God in Christ. That is the blessed and joyous life we are intended for and can only know in Christ.

Matthew 21:23-32
Two Prophets and Two Sons: True Authority and True Repentance.
I. Two Prophets (vv23-27)
---A. Two Questions (v23)
---B. One Answer (vv24-26)
---C. No Answer (v27)
II. Two Sons (vv28-32)
---A. Two Men? (vv28-30)
---B. One Man. (v31a)
---C. You are The (other) Man! (vv31b-32)