And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
In this passage of story nothing is added here to what we had in the other evangelists; but only in the first verse, where we are told, I. That he was now teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel. Note, Christ was a preacher of his own gospel.
Commenting on Luke 20:1-8
But and if we say of men,..... Which they had a good will to, against the dictates of their own consciences: all the people will stone us; meaning the common people, that were then in the temple about Christ, hearing him preach; who would be so enraged at such an answer, that without any regard to their character and office, they would rise and stone them.
Why then believed ye him not?--that is, in his testimony to Jesus, the sum of his whole witness.