Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
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Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Neither tell I you, by what authoritie I doe these things.
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Passages linked to Luke 20:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 5:12-13 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- Proverbs 26:4-5 Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
- Matthew 15:14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- Matthew 16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.
- Matthew 21:27 They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
- Mark 11:33 They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
- Luke 22:68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we…
5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
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7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Ver. 8. Neither tell I you, &c.] God’s servants should be ready with their answer upon sudden assaults, and not to seek such arguments as may stop the mouth of an adversary. When a nimble Jesuit asked, Where was your religion before Luther? answer was presently returned, In the Bible, where your religion never was.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And at the season,.... Or "when it the time…
And at the season,.... Or "when it the time of fruit", as the Ethiopic version renders it, agreeably to See Gill on Mat 21:34,
he sent a servant to the husbandmen; or servants, as in Mat 21:34; the prophets of the Lord, his messengers, whom he sent to them, to exhort them to bring forth the fruits of righteousness, as follows:
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that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard; that is, that they, bringing forth good fruit in their lives and conversations, whereby it might appear that they were trees of righteousness, and the planting of the Lord; he, or they observing them, might give an account of them to the Lord, to the glory of his name:
but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty; the Jews not only mocked these messengers of the Lord, and despised their words, but misused them, Ch2 36:15 they beat them with their fists, smote them on the cheek, and scourged them with scourges; so that they had no account to give of their fruitfulness in good works, but the contrary; See Gill on Mat 21:35 and See Gill on Mar 12:3.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. Neither tell I you] If they were incompetent…
8. Neither tell I you] If they were incompetent to decide as to the authority of the Prophet who had saluted Jesus as the Messiah, they were obviously incompetent to decide as to His authority.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you…
And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. Jesus, on hearing their plea of ignorance, now contemptuously declines to answer the Sanhedrists" question in the direct way they desired, but at once proceeds to speak a parable which unmistakably contains the reply.
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