Bible verse
“By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”
Mark 11:28 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 11.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
25 And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
27 After their return to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking in the temple courts, and the chief priests, scribes, and elders came up to Him.
28 “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”
29 “I will ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
30 John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”
31 They deliberated among themselves what they should answer: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
32 But if we say, ‘From men’...” they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John truly was a prophet.
KJV
And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?
ASV
and they said unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?
ERV
and they said unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?
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