Luke 20:1-8

1Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

2and said to him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?”

3He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

4John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people?”

5So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

6But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

7So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

8Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things.”