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53 Do you suppose that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will immediately provide Me with more than twelve legions [[a]more than 80,000] of angels?

54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must come about this way?

55 At that moment Jesus said to the crowds, Have you come out with swords and clubs as [you would] against a robber to capture Me? Day after day I was [b]accustomed to sit in the [c]porches and courts of the temple teaching, and you did not arrest Me.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:53 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 26:55 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Matthew 26:55 Richard Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament.

53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?(A) 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled(B) that say it must happen in this way?”

55 In that hour Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching,(C) and you did not arrest me.

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