8And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
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And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)In this passage of story nothing is added here to what we had in the other evangelists; but only in the Luke 20:1; where we are told, I. That he was now teaching the people in the temple , and preaching the gospel . Note, Christ was a preacher of his own gospel. He not only purchased the salvation for us, but published it to us, which is a great confirmation of the truth of the gospel, and gives a…
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