Quotes about Authorization

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

“By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You the authority to do them?”

“Tell us,” they said, “by what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”

It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.

The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.

Prisoners are people who have invited demonic oppression into their lives through a lifestyle of sin. The demons know they have permission to wreak havoc in these prisoners' souls until the prisoners repent. Once a prisoner has repented, the evil spirits no longer have authorization to oppress that person because the roots of sin have been dealt with.

So our hotheaded rabbi sought authorization to arrest followers of Jesus in Damascus and return them to Jerusalem. He was on his journey when God intervened and knocked him off his donkey.