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Source language
Original Greek   
καὶ εἶπαν ⸂λέγοντες πρὸς αὐτόν⸃· Εἰπὸν ἡμῖν ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα ποιεῖς, ἢ τίς ἐστιν ὁ δούς σοι τὴν ἐξουσίαν ταύτην;
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
kai eipan [?]legontes pros auton[?]* Eipon emin en poia exousia tauta poieis, e tis estin o dous soi ten exousian tauten;

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
et aiunt dicentes ad illum dic nobis in qua potestate haec facis aut quis est qui dedit tibi hanc potestatem

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And spoke to him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you these things? or who is he that gave you this authority?
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And spoke unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you these things? or who is he that gave you this authority?
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Authorized (King James) Version   
and spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
New King James Version   
and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is he who gave You this authority?”
21st Century King James Version   
and spoke unto Him, saying, “Tell us by what authority doest thou these things? Or who is he that gave thee this authority?

Other translations
American Standard Version   
and they spake, saying unto him, Tell us: By what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
They were saying to him, “Tell us by what authority do you do these things, and who is he who has given you this authority?”
Darby Bible Translation   
and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this authority?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou these things? or, Who is he that hath given thee this authority?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
and they spake, saying unto him, Tell us: By what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
God's Word   
They asked him, "Tell us, what gives you the right to do these things? Who told you that you could do this?"
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
and said to Him: "Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Who is it who gave You this authority?"
International Standard Version   
and asked him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"
NET Bible   
and said to him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?"
New American Standard Bible   
and they spoke, saying to Him, "Tell us by what authority You are doing these things, or who is the one who gave You this authority?"
New International Version   
"Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?"
New Living Translation   
They demanded, "By what authority are you doing all these things? Who gave you the right?"
Webster's Bible Translation   
And spoke to him, saying, Tell us, By what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Weymouth New Testament   
together with the Elders, and they asked Him, "Tell us, By what authority are you doing these things? And who is it that gave you this authority?"
The World English Bible   
They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
EasyEnglish Bible   
They asked him, ‘Tell us what authority you have to do these things? Who gave you the authority to do them?’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'
New Life Version   
They said to Him, “Tell us, by what right and power are You doing these things? Who gave You the right and the power?”
Revised Geneva Translation   
and spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us by what authority You do these things? Or, who is he who has given You this authority?”
The Voice Bible   
Elders: Tell us by what authority You march into the temple and disrupt our worship. Who gave You this authority?
Living Bible   
They demanded to know by what authority he had driven out the merchants from the Temple.
New Catholic Bible   
said to him, “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things. Or who is it that gave you this authority?”
Legacy Standard Bible   
and they spoke, saying to Him, “Tell us by what authority You are doing these things, or who is the one who gave You this authority?”
Jubilee Bible 2000   
and spoke unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Christian Standard Bible   
and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?”
Amplified Bible © 1954   
And said to Him, Tell us by what [sort of] authority You are doing these things? Or who is it who gave You this authority?
New Century Version   
saying, “Tell us what authority you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
The Message   
One day he was teaching the people in the Temple, proclaiming the Message. The high priests, religion scholars, and leaders confronted him and demanded, “Show us your credentials. Who authorized you to speak and act like this?”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
They asked him, “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things. Or who is the one who gave you this authority?”
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
and spoke to him, saying, “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things; or who it is who gave you · this authority?”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?”
New Matthew Bible   
and spoke to him, saying, Tell us by what authority you do these things. Or who is it that gave you this authority?
Good News Translation®   
and said to him, “Tell us, what right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?”
Wycliffe Bible   
and they said to him, [saying,] Say to us, in what power thou doest these things, or who is he that gave to thee this power?
New Testament for Everyone   
“Tell us: by what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority?”
Contemporary English Version   
asked him, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Then one day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the Gospel to them, the chief priests, the scribes and elders confronted him in a body and asked him this direct question, “Tell us by whose authority you act as you do—who gave you such authority?”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
and said to him, ‘Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?’
Common English Bible © 2011   
They said, “Tell us: What kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority?”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
and said to Him, “Tell us by what kind of authority You are doing these things? Or who is the one who gave You this authority?”
English Standard Version Anglicised   
and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Or who is the one who gave you this authority?”
New American Standard Bible   
and they declared, saying to Him, “Tell us by what authority You are doing these things, or who is the one who gave You this authority?”
The Expanded Bible   
saying, “Tell us what authority you have to do these things? [L Or] Who gave you this authority?”
Tree of Life Version   
And they spoke, saying to Him, “Tell us by what authority are You doing these things? Or who is the one who gave You this authority?”
Revised Standard Version   
and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
New International Reader's Version   
“Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they all said. “Who gave you this authority?”
BRG Bible   
And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Complete Jewish Bible   
and said, “Tell us, what s’mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? Who gave you this s’mikhah?”
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
They said to him, `Tell us what right you have to do these things. Who gave you the right to do them?'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
and said to him, ‘Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?’
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
They spoke, saying to him, Tell us by what shlita (authority) you do these things, or who is the one having given to you this shlita?
Names of God Bible   
They asked him, “Tell us, what gives you the right to do these things? Who told you that you could do this?”
Modern English Version   
and said to Him, “Tell us, by what authority are You doing these things? Who is he who gave You this authority?”
Easy-to-Read Version   
They said, “Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who gave you this authority?”
International Children’s Bible   
They said, “Tell us! What authority do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
Lexham English Bible   
and said, saying to him, “Tell us, by what authority you are doing these things, or who is the one who gave you this authority?
New International Version - UK   
‘Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,’ they said. ‘Who gave you this authority?’
Disciples Literal New Testament   
And they spoke, saying to Him, “Tell us, by what-kind-of  authority are You doing these things, or who is the one having given You this authority?”