saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;
And Jeremiah saith unto Zedekiah, `When I declare to thee, dost thou not surely put me to death? and when I counsel thee, thou dost not hearken unto me.'
And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
and if I also question `you', ye will not answer me or send me away;
The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;
why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'