²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, `I will question you -- I also -- one word; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things;

¹³ Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high.

²⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `I will ask you -- I also -- one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;

³ And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:

⁴ the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'

⁵ And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

⁶ and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

⁷ And they answered, that they knew not whence `it was',

⁸ and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'