Peshitta New Testament

Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 45

47 but ye have made it a den of robbers. — (47) And he taught daily in the temple : and the chief priests and Scribes and Elders of the people, sought to Sy.UI Sy. stoTie vpan stone. iso LUKE, XX. • Sy. he added ancL •' Sy. lie added and. kiestroy him. (48) But they found not, what they 48 could do to him ; for all the people hung upon him to hear him. And on one of those days, as he was teaching XX. the people in the temple, and preaching, the chief priests and Scribes, with the Elders, came upon .him, (2) and said to him : Tell us, by what author- 2 •ity thou doest these things? Anft who is it, that gave thee this authority? (3) Jesus answered, 3 and said to them : I also will ask you a word, and tell ye me. (4) The baptism of John, was it 4 from heaven, or from men? (5) And they rea- 5 soned with themselves, and said: If we say. From heaven ; he will say to us. And why did ye not believe him? (6) Jiut if we say. From men; all 6 the people will stone us ; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. (7) And they said to 7 him: We do not know, whence it was. (8) Jesus 8 said to them : Neither do I tell you, by what au- thority I do these things.