Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
- BSB And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
- NKJV And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
- NASB And Jesus said to them, “Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things.”
- NLT And Jesus responded, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 5:12–13He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
- Matt 16:4An 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.
- Prov 26:4–5Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
- Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- Mark 11:33They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
- Matt 21:27They 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.
- Luke 22:68and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.
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