Luca 20:5

5 Ed essi ragionavan fra loro, dicendo: Se diciamo: Dal cielo, egli ci dirà: Perché non gli credeste?

Luca 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).

Luca 20:5 In-Context

3 Ed egli, rispondendo, disse loro: Anch’io vi domanderò una cosa:

4 Il battesimo di Giovanni era dal cielo a dagli uomini?

5 Ed essi ragionavan fra loro, dicendo: Se diciamo: Dal cielo, egli ci dirà: Perché non gli credeste?

6 Ma se diciamo: Dagli uomini, tutto il popolo ci lapiderà, perché è persuaso che Giovanni era un profeta.

7 E risposero che non sapevano d’onde fosse.