Luke 20:7

7 et responderunt se nescire unde esset

Luke 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it
was.
] Whether from heaven, or of men; in this, no doubt, they told an untruth: but they chose rather to sacrifice their consciences than their interest, and pretend ignorance rather than profess the truth, when they saw they should be put to confusion, or be exposed to the resentments of the people.

Luke 20:7 In-Context

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

8 et Iesus ait illis neque ego dico vobis in qua potestate haec facio

9 coepit autem dicere ad plebem parabolam hanc homo plantavit vineam et locavit eam colonis et ipse peregre fuit multis temporibus