And addressing him, said: "Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who is it that has given you this authority?"
On one of these days, when Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple Courts and telling the Good News, the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law, joined by the Councillors, confronted him,
"I, too," said Jesus in reply, "will ask you one question. Give me an answer to it.
Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: "What sign are you going to show us, since you act in this way?"
But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying--'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.