{"id":285,"date":"2009-03-05T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T09:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/?p=285"},"modified":"2024-09-19T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:24:12","slug":"matthew-21-23-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/matthew-21-23-27\/the-authority-of-jesus-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 21.23-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, \u2018By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?\u2019 Jesus said to them, \u2018I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?\u2019 And they argued with one another, \u2018If we say, \u201cFrom heaven\u201d, he will say to us, \u201cWhy then did you not believe him?\u201d But if we say, \u201cOf human origin\u201d, we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a prophet.\u2019 So they answered Jesus, \u2018We do not know.\u2019 And he said to them, \u2018Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, \u2018By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?\u2019 Jesus said to them, \u2018I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-authority-of-jesus-questioned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}