Lukas 20:5

Schlachter Bibel

Sie aber dachten bei sich selbst und sprachen: Wenn wir sagen: Vom Himmel, so wird er fragen: Warum habt ihr ihm denn nicht geglaubt?

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Sie aber gedachten bei sich selbst und sprachen: Sagen wir: Vom Himmel, so wird er sagen: Warum habt ihr ihm denn nicht geglaubt?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Why: John 1:15-18, John 1:30, John 1:34, John 3:26, John 3:36, John 3:26, John 3:36, John 5:33-35, Acts 13:25

Reciprocal: Matthew 21:25 - Why Mark 8:16 - General Luke 14:18 - all Luke 20:14 - reasoned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they reasoned with themselves,.... Or "they thought with themselves", as the Syriac version; or "within themselves", as the Vulgate Latin, though they did not express it; or "one with another", as the Arabic version; they took counsel together, and debated the matter among themselves, and reasoned after this manner:

saying, if we shall say from heaven; which was what, in their own consciences, they believed to be true,

he will say, why then believed ye him not? in what he said concerning the Messiah; which if they had, as they should, there would have been no reason for such a question they had put;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 21:23-27.