Jesus’ Authority Challenged

20 And it happened that on one of the days while[a] he was teaching the people in the temple courts[b] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders and said, saying to him, “Tell us, by what authority you are doing these things, or who is the one who gave you this authority? And he answered and[c] said to them, “I also will ask you a question, and you tell me:

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 20:1 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was teaching”)
  2. Luke 20:1 Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
  3. Luke 20:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb