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Mark 11:27-33
By What Authority?
Jesus Enters Jerusalem Praised · Mark 11
Story guide: Jesus faces three dignified leaders in the temple court as one answers with an uncertain open hand. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Mark 11:27-33.
Open this scene in the reader →27And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him.
28And they were saying to him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”
29But Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.”
30Was John's baptism from heaven or from men? Answer me.
31And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, “What should we say? If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’”
32But if we say, ‘From men’?”—they were afraid of the crowd, for everyone held that John truly was a prophet.
33And answering Jesus, they say, “We do not know.” And Jesus says to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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