Matthew 21:23
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
23 aAnd when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him bas he was teaching, and said, c“By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”Mark 11:27-28
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
27 dAnd they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, 28and they said to him, e“By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”Luke 20:1-2
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
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was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, ithe chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up 2and said to him, “Tell us jby what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.” John 1:25
25They asked him, k“Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”Acts 4:7
7And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, l“By what power or mby what name did you do this?”Acts 5:28
28saying, n“We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you ointend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”
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