Matthew 26:55

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In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Context

52Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

56But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

57Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

58But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

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