Mark 11:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ and say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And they kept saying to Him, By what [sort of] authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do them?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ and they said unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? or who gave thee this authority to do these things?

Common English Bible

²⁸ They asked, “What kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And they said to him: "By what authority do you do these things? And who has given you this authority, so that you would do these things?"

Mark 11:28 Cross References

Exodus 2:14

He answered, “Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Numbers 16:13

Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?

Numbers 16:3

They assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

Mark 11:27

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

Mark 11:29

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