Luke 20:1-8 ▼

1 And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught ye people in the temple, & preached the Gospell, the hie priestes and the scribes came vpo hym, with the elders.

2 And spake vnto him, saying: Tell vs by what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? Eyther who is he that gaue thee this aucthoritie?

3 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: I also wyll aske you one thyng, & aunswere me.

4 The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?

5 And they reasoned within the selues, saying, Yf we say from heauen, he wyll say, why then beleued ye hym not?

6 But and yf we say of men, all the people wyll stone vs: For they be perswaded that Iohn is a prophete.

7 And they aunswered, that they coulde not tell whence it was.

8 And Iesus saide vnto them: Neither tell I you by what aucthoritie I do these thynges.