29. Jesus answered them, “I will ask you just one question, and if you give me an answer, I will tell you what right I have to do these things.
30. Tell me, where did John's right to baptize come from: was it from God or from human beings?”
31. They started to argue among themselves: “What shall we say? If we answer, ‘From God,’ he will say, ‘Why, then, did you not believe John?’
32. But if we say, ‘From human beings… ’ ” (They were afraid of the people, because everyone was convinced that John had been a prophet.)
33. So their answer to Jesus was, “We don't know.”Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.”