and if I ask you a question, you will not answer.

He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;

(SEE 5:12)

If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.

Give a silly answer to a silly question, and the one who asked it will realize that he's not as smart as he thinks.

"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.

So their answer to Jesus was, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things."