ONE day, as he was teaching the people in the temple and telling them the good news, the chief priests and scribes, accompanied by the elders, confronted him. ‘Tell us’, they said, ‘by what authority you are acting like this; who gave you this authority?’ He answered them, ‘I also have a question for you: tell me, was the baptism of John from God or from man?’ This set them arguing among themselves: ‘If we say, “From God,” he will say, “Why did you not believe him?” And