Mark 11:29 - Exposition

I will ask of you one question ( ἐπερωτήσω ὑμᾶς ἕνα λόγον ). The verb justifies the translation, one question , for "one word." The question which our Lord put to them was one on which hung the solution of that proposed by the scribes. It is as though he said, "You do not believe me when I say that I have received power from God. Believe then John the Baptist, who bare witness of me that I was sent from God to do these things."