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