Luke 20:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτόν, λέγοντες, Εἰπὲ ἡμῖν, ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα ποιεῖς; ἢ τίς ἐστιν ὁ δούς σοι τὴν ἐξουσίαν ταύτην;

Transliteration

And eipon pros him, legontes, Eipe to us, in what exousia these things poieis? or who estin the one dous to you the exousian this?

Grammar Details

• *eipon*: aorist active, 3rd plural - they said/spoke
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *legontes*: present participle, nominative, plural - saying
• *Eipe*: aorist imperative, 2nd singular - tell/say
• *exousia*: dative, feminine, singular - authority/power
• *poieis*: present active, 2nd singular - you do/are doing
• *estin*: present active, 3rd singular - is
• *dous*: aorist participle, nominative, singular - having given
• *exousian*: accusative, feminine, singular - authority/power

Word Meanings

• *eipon*: they said/spoke/told
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *exousia*: authority/power/jurisdiction
• *poieis*: you do/you are doing/you perform
• *dous*: having given/who gave

Referenced Verses

• John 2:18 : 18 The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
• Acts 7:27 : 27 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
• Exod 2:14 : 14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
• Matt 21:23-27 : 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?' 26 But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet." 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 11:28-33 : 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. 30 The baptism of John -- was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me." 31 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 32 If we should say, 'From men'"--they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet. 33 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."
• Acts 7:35-39 : 35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37 This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.{TR adds "You shall listen to him."}' 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us, 39 to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Acts 7:51 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• John 5:22-27 : 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him. 24 "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25 Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
• Acts 4:7-9 : 7 When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, "By what power, or in what name, have you done this?" 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
• Luke 19:35-40 : 35 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them. 36 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. 37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!" 39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" 40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
• Luke 19:45-46 : 45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"