Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 20:2

2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, By what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

We have along the History of the Gospel observed, that the Scribes and Pharisees, took all advantages imaginable against our Saviour; failing in all their acts they now come to question his Authority, which seemeth not so much to have respect to his Preaching, as to his act in casting of the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple, for as to Preaching, they seemed by the History of Scripture to have given a great liberty, especially if any had the repute of a Prophet.

Marginal references: Acts 4.7. & 7.27.