26. [But if you do not give mechila (forgiveness) neither will your chattaim receive selicha (forgiveness) from your Av shbaShomayim.]
27. And again they come into Yerushalayim. And in the Beis Hamikdash, [when] Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was walking about, the Rashei Hakohanim (the Chief Priests) and the Sofrim (Scribes) and the Zekenim come to him.
28. And they were saying to him, By what kind of samchut do you do these things? Or who gave to you this samchut that you may do these things?
29. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, I will ask you one dvar, and you answer me and I will tell you by what kind of samchut I do these things:
30. The tevilah [of teshuva] of Yochanan--was it from Shomayim or from Bnei Adam? Answer me!
31. And they were discussing among themselves, saying, If we say, from Shomayim, he will say, Why then did you not believe him?
32. But [if] we say from Bnei Adam, they were afraid of the multitude, for everyone was considering Yochanan beemes (in truth) a navi.
33. And in reply to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, they say, We do not have daas. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Neither will I tell you by what kind of samchut I do these things.