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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 96%

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

    29 And 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.

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

    31 And 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?

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

    33 And 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.

  • 90%

    24 And 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.

    25 The 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?

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

    27 And 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
    2 verses
    84%

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

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

  • Luke 20:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2 That 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.

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

    4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?

  • Luke 5:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 And 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?

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

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

  • Matt 16:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

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

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

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

  • John 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Truly, 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.

    12 If 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?

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

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

  • 46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

  • 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

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

  • 71%

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

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

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

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

  • 30 So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

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

  • 26 And 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.

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

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

  • 47 If you have no belief in his writings, how will you have belief in my words?

  • 69%

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

    48 If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

  • Mark 9:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

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

    33 And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house, he put the question to them, What were you talking about on the way?

  • 19 But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:

  • 37 But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

  • 57 And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?

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

  • 41 And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?

  • 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.