{"id":144265,"date":"2026-03-31T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144265"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:30:17","slug":"from-the-morning-bible-readings-1695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144265","title":{"rendered":"From the morning Bible readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,\u00a0and they said to him, \u201cBy what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?\u201d\u00a0Jesus said to them, \u201cI will ask you a question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.\u00a0Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men? Answer me.\u201d\u00a0And they argued with one another, \u201cIf we say, \u2018From heaven,\u2019 he will say, \u2018Why then did you not believe him?\u2019\u00a0But shall we say, \u2018From men\u2019?\u201d\u2014they were afraid of the people, for all held that John was a real prophet.\u00a0So they answered Jesus, \u201cWe do not know.\u201d And Jesus said to them, \u201cNeither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Mark 11:27-33<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can never have too many bluebells. Happy Tuesday folks &#x1f970; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TcFjeNZHTp\">pic.twitter.com\/TcFjeNZHTp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrew Edwards (@AndrewOpera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewOpera\/status\/2038865838418039286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,\u00a0and they said to him, \u201cBy what authority are you doing these things, or who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144265\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144267,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144265\/revisions\/144267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}