Matthew 21:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And when he was come into the temple, the chiefe priestes, & the elders of the people, came vnto hym teaching, and saye: By what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? and who gaue thee this power?

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  • Acts 4:7 : 7 And when they had set them before them, they asked: by what power, or in what name haue ye done this?
  • Acts 7:27 : 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust hym awaye, saying: Who made thee a ruler and a iudge ouer vs?
  • Exod 2:14 : 14 He aunswered: Who made thee a man of aucthoritie and a iudge ouer vs? intendest thou to kyll me, as thou kylledst the Egyptian? And Moyses feared and sayde: Of a suretie this thyng is knowen.
  • 1 Chr 24:1-9 : 1 These are the deuisions of the sonnes of Aaro. The sonnes of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 2 Nadab also and Abihu dyed before their father, & had no children: But Eleazar, & Ithamar executed the priestes office. 3 And Dauid ordred them on this maner: Zadoc of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelec of the sonnes of Ithamar were according to their offices in their ministration. 4 And there were mo auncient men founde among the sonnes of Eleazar, then the sonnes of Ithamar. And thus were they ordred together: Among the sonnes of Eleazar there were sixteene rulers according to the houshold of their fathers, and eyght among the sonnes of Ithamar according to the housholde of their fathers. 5 And thus were they put in order by lot the one sort from the other: and so were there rulers in the sanctuarie and lordes before God, aswell of the sonnes of Eleazer, as of the sonnes of Ithamar. 6 And Semeia the sonne of Nathanael the scribe, of the kinred of the Leuites, wrote them before the king & the lordes, & before Zadoc the priest and Ahimelec the sonne of Abiathar, and before the auncient fathers of the priestes and Leuites, one principall housholde being reserued for Eleazar, and one for Ithamar. 7 And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib: and the seconde to Iedaia, 8 The third to Harim, and the fourth to Sehorim, 9 The fyft to Melchia, and the sixth to Miiamin, 10 The seuenth to Hakos, and the eyght to Abia, 11 The nynth to Iesua, and the tenth to Secaniah, 12 The eleuenth to Eliasib, & the twelfth to Iakim, 13 The thirteenth to Huppa, and the fourteenth to Iesebeab, 14 The fyftenth to Bilga, and the sixtenth to Immer, 15 The seuenteenth to Hezir, and the eyghteenth to Aphses, 16 The nynteenth to Pethahia, and the twentieth to Ieheskel, 17 The twentie and one to Iachin, and the twentie and two to Gamul, 18 The twentie and three to Delaiahu, and the twentie and foure to Maasiahu. 19 These are the ordinaunces of them in their offices when they came into the house of the Lord, according to their maner vnder Aaron their father, as the lord God of Israel had comaunded him.
  • Matt 26:55 : 55 In that same houre, sayde Iesus to the multitudes: Ye be come out, as it were vnto a thiefe, with swordes and staues, for to take me. I sate dayly with you, teachyng in the temple, and ye toke me not.
  • Luke 19:47-20:8 : 47 And he taught dayly in the temple. But the hye priestes and the scribes, & the chiefe of the people, went about to destroy hym, 48 And coulde not fynde what to do: For all the people stacke by hym, when they hearde hym. 1 And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught ye people in the temple, & preached the Gospell, the hie priestes and the scribes came vpo hym, with the elders. 2 And spake vnto him, saying: Tell vs by what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? Eyther who is he that gaue thee this aucthoritie? 3 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: I also wyll aske you one thyng, & aunswere me. 4 The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men? 5 And they reasoned within the selues, saying, Yf we say from heauen, he wyll say, why then beleued ye hym not? 6 But and yf we say of men, all the people wyll stone vs: For they be perswaded that Iohn is a prophete. 7 And they aunswered, that they coulde not tell whence it was. 8 And Iesus saide vnto them: Neither tell I you by what aucthoritie I do these thynges.
  • Mark 11:27-33 : 27 And they came agayne to Hierusalem: And as he walked in the temple, there came to hym the hye priestes, and the scribes, and the elders. 28 And say vnto him: By what auctoritie doest thou these thynges? & who gaue thee this auctoritie, to do these thynges? 29 Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: I wyll also aske of you one question: and aunswere me, and I wyll tell you by what auctoritie I do these thynges. 30 The baptisme of Iohn, whether was it from heauen, or of men? Aunswere me. 31 And they reasoned with them selues, saying, yf we shall say from heauen: he wyll say, why then dyd ye not beleue hym? 32 But yf we shal say, of men, we feare the people. For all men counted Iohn, that he was a very prophete. 33 And they aunswered, and sayde vnto Iesus: we can not tell. And Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto them: neither wyll I tell you by what auctoritie I do these thynges.

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