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They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
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Verse 33. Neither do I tell you, and so forth I do not tell you what I know, because you refuse to own what you know. We should observe, there are here two reasons for concealing the truth from inquirers: 1st, when he that inquireth after the truth is incapable of understanding it; 2d, when on account of some contempt of the truth, or some other evil indisposition, the person is not deserving of having the truth laid open to him. Ven. Bede.
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