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# So they answered
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"So the chief priests, scribes and elders answered." The word "so" marks an event that happened because of something else that happened first. In this case, they had reasoned with themselves ([Luke 20:5-6](./05.md)), and they did not have an answer they wanted to say.
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# they answered that they did not know where it came from.
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This could be stated as a direct quote. Alternate translation: "they said, 'We do not know where it came from.'" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
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# where it came from
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"where John's baptism came from." Alternate translation: "where John's authority to baptize came from" or "who authorized John to baptize people"
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