Luke 20:8
Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- Prov 26:4-5 : 4 Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
- Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
- Matt 16:4 : 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
- Matt 21:27 : 27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
- Mark 11:33 : 33 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."
- Luke 22:68 : 68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Matt 21:27-282 verses90%
27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
- 89%
33 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."
- Matt 21:23-253 verses82%
23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
- Luke 20:2-32 verses81%
2 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:
- Mark 11:28-292 verses81%
28 and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"
29 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
- 80%
7 They answered that they didn't know where it was from.
- 74%
30 He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.
- John 8:19-202 verses73%
19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
- 73%
20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
- 73%
9 He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
- Luke 9:20-212 verses71%
20 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
21 But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,
- Luke 20:25-262 verses70%
25 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
26 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
- John 18:20-212 verses70%
20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."
- 70%
40 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
- 70%
25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
- Luke 22:67-682 verses70%
67 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,
68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
- Luke 20:21-222 verses70%
21 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Mark 8:26-272 verses70%
26 He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."
27 Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
- John 8:26-283 verses70%
26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
- 69%
34 Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"
- 69%
19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
- 69%
12 He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.
- John 8:14-152 verses69%
14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
- 69%
16 and commanded them that they should not make him known:
- Matt 22:20-212 verses69%
20 He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
21 They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
- 69%
21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
- 69%
13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
- 68%
15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
- 68%
16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
- 68%
32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"
- 68%
46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.
- 68%
34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
- 68%
32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
- 68%
16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.