It is about John's baptism. Was it of divine or human origin? Answer me that."
"I will put one question to you," said Jesus. "Answer me that, and then I will tell you what authority I have to act as I do.
They began arguing together; "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why then did not you believe him?'
But I tell you that Elijah has come, and people have treated him just as they pleased, as Scripture says of him."
And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to let them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;