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*By what [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_38_-_Monday_in_Jerusalem#Challenging_the_Master.E2.80.99s_Authority authority] do you do these things?  
 
*By what [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_38_-_Monday_in_Jerusalem#Challenging_the_Master.E2.80.99s_Authority authority] do you do these things?  

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Questions to Jesus about Authority.




His teaching follows the hyperlink within each question.



  • "Who ever saw one having a devil open the eyes of a man born blind and do all of the wonderful things which this man has done?"


Questions by Jesus addressing the topic of Authority.

  • "Will you go back to the easy path of the certainty and intellectual settledness of the religion of traditional authority ?"
  • “To honor God-knowing leaders of the past may be worthwhile, but why in so doing, should you sacrifice the supreme experience of human existence: finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls?"
  • "But what chance does the Father have to appear as a God of supreme loyalties and divine ideals in the souls of men who give little or no time to the thoughtful contemplation of such eternal realities?"