Mark 11:28-33 and asked him, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you authority to act in this way?"

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁸ and asked him, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you authority to act in this way?" ²⁹ Jesus said to them, "I am going to ask you a question. Answer this, and I will tell you what authority I have for acting as I do. ³⁰ What about the baptism of John? Was it from heaven or from men?" ³¹ Now they argued to themselves, "[What are we to say?] If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why did you not believe him.' ³² No, let us say, From men" — but they were afraid of the multitude, for the people all held John had been really a prophet. ³³ So they replied to Jesus, "We do not know." Jesus said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do."