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Matthew 26:52-54
1599 Geneva Bible
Matthew 26:52-54
1599 Geneva Bible
52 [a]Then said Jesus unto him, Put up thy sword into his place: (A)for all that [b]take the sword, shall perish with the sword.
53 [c]Either thinkest thou, that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will give me more than twelve legions of Angels?
54 [d]How then should the (B)Scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that it must be so?
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- Matthew 26:52 Our vocation must be the rule of our zeal.
- Matthew 26:52 They take the sword to whom the Lord hath not given it, that is to say, they which use the sword, and are not called to it.
- Matthew 26:53 Christ was taken, because he was willing to be taken.
- Matthew 26:54 By this questioning he answereth a sly objection, for they might have asked him why he did not in this his great extremity of danger, call to his Father for aid: but to this he answereth by a question.
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