53 Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions[a] of angels?(A) 54 How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled(B) that say it must happen this way?”

55 At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal,[b] to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:53 A Roman legion contained up to 6,000 soldiers.
  2. Matthew 26:55 Lit as against a criminal

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