Luke 20:8

8 and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'

Luke 20:8 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:8

And Jesus said unto them
Since they would not give him a direct answer to his question:

neither tell I you by what authority I do these things;
nor was there any need of it; they might easily perceive by what he had said, from whence he professed to have received his authority, from God, and not men; (See Gill on Matthew 21:27).

Luke 20:8 In-Context

6 and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

7 And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],

8 and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'

9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

10 and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.