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# Connecting Statement:
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Jesus continues to respond to the religious leaders.
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# from where did it come?
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"where did he get the authority to do that?"
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# If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?
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This has quotes within a quote. You could translate the direct quotations as an indirect quotations. AT: "If we say that we believe John received his authority from heaven, then Jesus will ask us why we did not believe John." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
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# From heaven
Here "heaven" refers to God. AT: "from God in heaven" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# Why then did you not believe him?
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The religious leaders know that Jesus could scold them with this rhetorical question. AT: "Then you should have believed John the Baptist" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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