Luke 20:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?

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  • John 1:15-18 : 15 John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me. 16 From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ. 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
  • John 1:30 : 30 This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.
  • John 1:34 : 34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.
  • John 3:26 : 26 And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.
  • John 3:36 : 36 He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.
  • John 5:33-35 : 33 You sent to John and he gave true witness. 34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation. 35 He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light.
  • Acts 13:25 : 25 And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.

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    28And they said to him, By what authority do you do these things? or who gave you authority to do these things?

    29And Jesus said to them, I will put to you one question; give me an answer, and I will say by what authority I do these things.

    30The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? give me an answer.

    31And they gave thought to it among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not have faith in him?

    32But if we say, From men--they were in fear of the people, because all took John to be truly a prophet.

    33And they said in answer to Jesus, We have no idea. And Jesus said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

  • Matt 21:24-27
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    24And Jesus said to them in answer, I will put one question to you, and if you give me the answer, I will say by what authority I do these things.

    25The baptism of John, where did it come from? from heaven or from men? And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not have faith in him?

    26But if we say, From men; we are in fear of the people, because all take John to be a prophet.

    27And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

  • Luke 20:6-7
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    6But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.

    7And they made answer that they had no idea where it came from.

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    2That the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people came to him and said, Make clear to us by what authority you do these things and who gave you this authority.

    3And in answer he said to them, I will put a question to you, and do you give me an answer:

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    21And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?

    22But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

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    16And they said to one another, We have no bread.

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    7And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

    8And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

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    8And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

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    67If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;

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    34Jesus made answer, Do you say this of yourself, or did others say it about me?

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    11Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

    12If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

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    15And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

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    10And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

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    30They said to him in answer, If the man was not a wrongdoer we would not have given him up to you.

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    22Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?

    23But he saw through their trick and said to them,

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    71And they said, What more need have we of witness? we have the very words of his mouth.

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    6But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,

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    25And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

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    26And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.

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    21Why are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to them: they have knowledge of what I said.

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    17Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not?

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    47Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

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    32But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.

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    3And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.

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