<p>21:24<em> And Jesus answered and said to them: I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things- </em>It is not necessarily wrong to avoid answering a question- although few of us could do so in the spiritually and logically flawless way the Lord did here, let alone at a moment's notice.</p><p>The AV is mistaken in translating &quot;If you tell me, I will tell you&quot;. The sense rather is: 'If you answer this question, then in that answer you will have My telling you the answer to your question'. They finally answered in :27 that 'We cannot know' (AV again is unhelpful by offering here &quot;We cannot tell&quot;- the Greek words for AV &quot;tell&quot; are all different in this section).&nbsp;</p>