Mark 11:33

“And they answered and said unto Jesus, etc..] Being reduced by this dilemma to the greatest streight and difficulty; we cannot tell: they could, if they would, but they did not care to tell; they knew if they did, they should expose themselves one way or other: and Jesus answering, saith unto them, neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things; (see Gill on “<402127>Matthew 21:27”).”

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“11:33 In answering, “We don’t know,” the religious leaders of the nation admitted that they could not answer a simple question that the people had no difficulty in answering: John was sent from God. They thus forfeited the religious leadership of the nation on this question. Their hardness of heart (3:5; 7:6), their unwillingness to see (4:12), and their deliberate refusal to accept the truth made further discussion fruitless. Their blindness and hostility toward God’s servants John the Baptist and Jesus, their desecration of the Temple, and their plot to kill Jesus all revealed why God’s judgment would come within that very generation (13:30).”

“We: Isa 1:3, Isa 6:9, Isa 6:10, Isa 29:9-14, Isa 42:19, Isa 42:20, Isa 56:10; Jer 8:7-9; Hos 4:6; Mal 2:7, Mal 2:8; Mat 15:14, Mat 23:16-26; Joh 3:10; Rom 1:18-22, Rom 1:28; Co2 3:15; Co2 4:3, Co2 4:4; Th2 2:10-12 Neither: Job 5:13; Pro 26:4, Pro 26:5; Mat 16:4, Mat 21:27; Luk 10:21, Luk 10:22, Luk 20:7, Luk 20:8, Luk 22:66-69; Joh 9:27 Next: Mark Chapter 12”