Luke 20:5 YLT

³  And he answering said unto them, 'I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:

⁴  the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'

⁵  And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- 'If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

⁶  and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

⁷  And they answered, that they knew not whence 'it was',