Mark 11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Mark 11Jesus’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

1 went out of the city.

The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree

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23 it, and it will be yours.

25 Jesus’s Authority Is Questioned

27Again they came to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him

28and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?”

29Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

30Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin? Answer me.”

31They argued with one another, “What should we say? If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

32Mt 14.5But shall we say, ‘Of human origin’?”—they were afraid of the crowd, for all regarded John as truly a prophet.

33So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”