Lucas 20:5

5 Eles discutiam entre si, dizendo: “Se dissermos: Do céu, ele perguntará: ‘Então por que vocês não creram nele?’

Lucas 20:5 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:5

And they reasoned with themselves
Or "they thought with themselves", as the Syriac version; or "within themselves", as the Vulgate Latin, though they did not express it; or "one with another", as the Arabic version; they took counsel together, and debated the matter among themselves, and reasoned after this manner:

saying, if we shall say from heaven;
which was what, in their own consciences, they believed to be true,

he will say, why then believed ye him not?
in what he said concerning the Messiah; which if they had, as they should, there would have been no reason for such a question they had put; (See Gill on Matthew 21:25).

Lucas 20:5 In-Context

3 Ele respondeu: “Eu também farei uma pergunta; digam-me:

4 O batismo de João era do céu, ou dos homens?”

5 Eles discutiam entre si, dizendo: “Se dissermos: Do céu, ele perguntará: ‘Então por que vocês não creram nele?’

6 Mas se dissermos: Dos homens, todo o povo nos apedrejará, porque convencidos estão de que João era um profeta”.

7 Por isso responderam: “Não sabemos de onde era”.