Luke 20:5

5 at illi cogitabant inter se dicentes quia si dixerimus de caelo dicet quare ergo non credidistis illi

Luke 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).

Luke 20:5 In-Context

3 respondens autem dixit ad illos interrogabo vos et ego verbum respondete mihi

4 baptismum Iohannis de caelo erat an ex hominibus

5 at illi cogitabant inter se dicentes quia si dixerimus de caelo dicet quare ergo non credidistis illi

6 si autem dixerimus ex hominibus plebs universa lapidabit nos certi sunt enim Iohannem prophetam esse

7 et responderunt se nescire unde esset