"... but afterward he repented and went." - Matthew 21:29

In Matthew 21:28-32 Jesus tells a story about afterthoughts. In this story two young men had second thoughts about choices they had made. Each had made up his mind to go in a certain direction, but later reconsidered and went another. Here is the story as Jesus told it: "A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' and he answered, 'I will not;' but afterward he repented and went. And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I go, sir,' but he did not go."

One young man said yes and then did not do what he said he would; the other said no and then did what he said he wouldn't. And Jesus asked his hearers, "Which of the two did the will of his father?" The answer…