“But John's baptism was "from heaven." "Why, therefore," asks Christ, "did ye not believe him? " He therefore who had wished men to believe John, purposing to censure them because they had not believed him, belonged to Him whose sacrament John was administering.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Marcion Book IV
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5And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
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3And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:
4The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
— Luke 20:5 —
6But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
7And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.