Lukas 20:2

2 They spoke, saying to him, Tell us by what shlita (authority) you do these things, or who is the one having given to you this shlita?

Lukas 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:2

And spoke unto him, saying, tell us by what authority
doest thou these things?
&c.] The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read, "this thing"; as if the sanhedrim only referred to his preaching the Gospel, which is mentioned in the preceding verse, and was what he was about when they came to him: but the Persic version reads, "all these things"; not only preaching, but working miracles; and particularly driving the buyers and sellers out of the temple, which especially affected them, they losing their rents thereby:

or who is he that gave thee this authority?
God or man? (See Gill on Matthew 21:23).

Lukas 20:2 In-Context

1 0 And it came about on one of the yamim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying shiurim to HaAm (the People) in the Beis Hamikdash and was preaching the Besuras HaGeulah, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim with the Ziknei HaAm stood by;

2 They spoke, saying to him, Tell us by what shlita (authority) you do these things, or who is the one having given to you this shlita?

3 In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I will also confront you will a she’elah, and you tell me:

4 The tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan—was it from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam?

5 And they reasoned to themselves saying, If we say, from Shomayim, he will say, why did you not believe him?