_Jesus bases His human authority on John the Baptist, His Forerunner who baptized him, and demands the Sanhedrin's opinion of the Baptism of John. This pertinent counter-question paralyzes the Jewish leaders and Jesus drives His argument home by three parables. (a) Parable of the Two Sons. (b) Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. (c) Parable of the Marriage Feast of the King's Son._ In the court of the Temple. (_Tuesday_[b]) A Day of Controversy Mark 11:27-12:12 |Matt. 21:23-22:14 |Luke 20:1-19 | | | | 1 And it came to | | pass, on one of | | the days, as he 27 And they come |23 And when he was | was teaching the again to Jerusalem: | come into the | people in the and as he was | temple, the chief | temple, and walking in the | priests and the | preaching the temple, there come | elders of the people| gospel, there came to him the chief | came unto him as he | upon him the chief priests, and the | was teaching, and | priests and the scribes, and the | said, By what | scribes with the 28 elders; and they | authority doest thou| 2 elders; and they said unto him, By | these things? and | spake, saying unto what authority doest| who gave thee this | him, Tell us: By thou these things? |24 authority? And Jesus| what authority or who gave thee | answered and said | doest thou these this authority to do| unto them, I also | things? or who is 29 these things? And | will ask you one | he that gave thee Jesus said unto | [1]question, which | this authority? them, I will ask of | if ye tell me, I | 3 And he answered you one [1]question,| likewise will tell | and said unto and answer me, and I| you by what | them, I also will will tell you by | authority I do these| ask you a what authority I do |25 things. The baptism | [1]question; and 30 these things. The | of John, whence was | 4 tell me: The baptism of John, was| it? from heaven or | baptism of John, it from heaven, or | from men? And they | was it from from men? answer me.| reasoned with | heaven, or from 31 And they reasoned | themselves, saying, | 5 men? And they with themselves, | If we shall say, | reasoned with saying, If we shall | From heaven; he will| themselves, say, From heaven; he| say unto us, Why | saying, If we will say, Why then | then did ye not | shall say, From did ye not believe |26 believe him? But if | heaven; he will 32 him? [7]But should | we shall say, From | say, Why did ye