Mark 11:28

And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

And {G2532} say {G3004} unto him {G846}, By {G1722} what {G4169} authority {G1849} doest thou {G4160} these things {G5023}? and {G2532} who {G5101} gave {G1325} thee {G4671} this {G5026} authority {G1849} to {G2443} do {G4160} these things {G5023}?

and they said to him, "What s'mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? Who gave you this s'mikhah authorizing you to do them?"

“By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”

and they said unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 2:14 (3 votes)

    And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

  • Numbers 16:13 (2 votes)

    [Is it] a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

  • Numbers 16:3 (2 votes)

    And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

  • Acts 7:27 (2 votes)

    But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  • Acts 7:28 (2 votes)

    Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

  • Acts 7:51 (2 votes)

    ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.

  • Acts 7:38 (2 votes)

    This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: