Luke 20:8

8 And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

Luke 20:8 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:8

And Jesus said unto them
Since they would not give him a direct answer to his question:

neither tell I you by what authority I do these things;
nor was there any need of it; they might easily perceive by what he had said, from whence he professed to have received his authority, from God, and not men; (See Gill on Matthew 21:27).

Luke 20:8 In-Context

6 But and yf we shall saye of men all ye people will stone vs. For they be persuaded that Ihon is a Prophet.

7 And they answered that they coulde not tell whence it was.

8 And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

9 Then begane he to put forthe to the people this similitude. A certayne man planted a vyneyarde and let it forthe to fermers and went him selfe into a straunge countre for a greate season.

10 And when the tyme was come he sent a servaut to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennauntes dyd bet him and sent him awaye empty.