Luke 20:3

He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

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He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

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“I will also ask you a question,” Jesus replied. “Tell Me:

ASV

And he answered and said unto them, I also will ask you a question; and tell me:

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Ἀποκριθεὶς Apokritheis Answering G611 δὲ de now G1161 εἶπεν eipen He said G2036 πρὸς pros to G4314 αὐτούς autous them G846 ἐρωτήσω erōtēsō Will ask G2065 ὑμᾶς humas you G4771 κἀγὼ kagō I myself also G1473 ἕνα hena one G1520 λόγον logon thing G3056 καὶ kai and G2532 εἴπατέ eipate do tell G2036 μοι moi Me G3165

The early church

Now our Lord by a simple answer might have refuted such a calumny; but He wisely asks a question, that by their silence or their words they might condemn themselves. And he answered and said unto them, I also will ask, &c.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
For that He might show that they had always rebelled against the Holy Spirit, and that besides Isaiah, whom they remembered not, they had refused to believe John whom they had lately seen; He now in his turn puts the question to them, proving that if so great a Prophet as John who was accounted greatest among them had been disbelieved when he testified of Him, they would in no wise believe Him, answering by what authority He did this.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–8

Men often pretend to examine the evidences of revelation, and the truth of the gospel, when only seeking excuses for their own unbelief and disobedience. Christ answered these priests and scribes with a plain question about the baptism of John, which the common people could answer. They all knew it was from heaven, nothing in it had an earthly tendency. Those that bury the knowledge they have, are justly denied further knowledge. It was just with Christ to refuse to give account of his authority, to those who knew the baptism of John to be from heaven, yet would not believe in him, nor own their knowledge.

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