Luke 20:8

World English Bible (2000)

Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

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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.

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  • Matt 21:27-28
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    90%

    27They 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.

    28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

  • Mark 11:33
    89%

    33They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

  • Matt 21:23-25
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    82%

    23When 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?"

    24Jesus 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.

    25The 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 20:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

    3He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

  • Mark 11:28-29
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    81%

    28and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"

    29Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

  • Luke 20:7
    80%

    7They answered that they didn't know where it was from.

  • Mark 8:30
    74%

    30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.

  • John 8:19-20
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    19They 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."

    20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • Matt 16:20
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    20Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

  • Luke 20:9
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    9He 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 9:20-21
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    20He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "The Christ of God."

    21But he warned them, and commanded them to tell this to no one,

  • Luke 20:25-26
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    25He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

    26They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

  • John 18:20-21
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    20Jesus 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.

    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

  • Luke 20:40
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    40They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus 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 22:67-68
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    67"If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe,

    68and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

  • Luke 20:21-22
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    21They 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.

    22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

  • Mark 8:26-27
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    26He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."

    27Jesus 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 8:26-28
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    26I 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."

    27They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

    28Jesus 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.

  • John 18:34
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    34Jesus answered him, "Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?"

  • John 5:19
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    19Jesus 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.

  • Mark 3:12
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    12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

  • John 8:14-15
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    14Jesus 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.

    15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

  • Matt 12:16
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    16and commanded them that they should not make him known:

  • Matt 22:20-21
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    20He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

    21They 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."

  • Mark 8:21
    69%

    21He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • Matt 13:13
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    13Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

  • Matt 20:15
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    15Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

  • Luke 20:16
    68%

    16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

  • Matt 20:32
    68%

    32Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"

  • Matt 22:46
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    46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.

  • Matt 13:34
    68%

    34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

  • John 10:32
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    32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

  • John 7:16
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    16Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.