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Acts 4:7
When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired,“ By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
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Exodus 2:14
He said,“ Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said,“ Surely this thing is known.”
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Acts 7:27
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying,‘ Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
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Matthew 26:55
In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes,“ Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.
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Luke 19:47-20:8
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.They asked him,“ Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”He answered them,“ I also will ask you one question. Tell me:the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”They reasoned with themselves, saying,“ If we say,‘ From heaven,’ he will say,‘ Why didn’t you believe him?’But if we say,‘ From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.Jesus said to them,“ Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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1 Chronicles 24 1-1 Chronicles 24 19
These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ houses, eight.Thus they were divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,the twenty- first to Jachin, the twenty- second to Gamul,the twenty- third to Delaiah, and the twenty- fourth to Maaziah.This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
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Mark 11:27-33
They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him,and they began saying to him,“ By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?”Jesus said to them,“ I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.The baptism of John— was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.”They reasoned with themselves, saying,“ If we should say,‘ From heaven;’ he will say,‘ Why then did you not believe him?’If we should say,‘ From men’”— they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.They answered Jesus,“ We don’t know.” Jesus said to them,“ Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”