Mark 11:33

Jesus' Authority Challenged

³² But should we say, From men? (They feared the people, for all held John that he was indeed a prophet.) ³³ And having answered, they say to Jesus, We do not know. And having answering, Jesus says to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

By What Authority

Jesus Said

Jesus

John

Mark

No

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Proverbs 26:4-5

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but do not understand, and see ye indeed, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 29:9-14

Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 42:19-20

Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace [with me], and blind as LORD's servant?

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 8:7-9

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of LORD.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

Malachi 2:7-8

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Matthew 16:4

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And having left them behind, he departed.

Matthew 21:27

And having answered Jesus, they said, We know not. He said to them, And neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Matthew 23:16-26

Woe to you, ye blind guides, who say, Whoever may swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.

Luke 10:21-22

In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that thou hid these things from the wise and astute, and revealed them to the childlike. Yea, Father, because it becam

Luke 20:7-8

And they replied not to know from where.

Luke 22:66-69

And when it became day, the eldership of the people, the chief priests, and the scholars, came together, and led him into their council, saying,

John 3:10

Jesus answered and said to him, Thou are the teacher of Israel, and do not understand these things?

John 9:27

He answered them, I told you already, and ye did not listen. Why do ye want to hear it again? Do ye not also want to become his disciples?

Romans 1:18-22

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

2 Corinthians 3:15

But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lays upon their heart.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.