20 One day when Yeshua was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the good message, the chief priests and religious teachers and the local elders came to him 2 and demanded, “Tell us what authority you have to do these things and who gave it to you!”

3 “Well, I’ll also ask you all a question,” he responded. 4 “When Yohan immersed people, was he instructed from heaven or was it just some human person’s idea?”

5 They discussed this among themselves, reasoning, “If we say ‘from heaven’, then he’ll ask us why we didn’t believe that God sent him. 6 But if we say ‘from humans’, then all the people will kill us with rocks, because they believe that Yohan was a prophet.” 7 So they answered, “We don’t know where his teaching was from.”

8 “Well, then,” Yeshua told them, “nor will I tell you where I get the authority to do these things.”