54 How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled(A) 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,[a] to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me.(B) 56 But all this has happened so that the prophetic Scriptures[b](C) would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples(D) deserted Him and ran away.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:55 Lit as against a criminal
  2. Matthew 26:56 Or the Scriptures of the prophets

54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled(A) 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,(B) and you did not arrest me. 56 But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”(C) Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.

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54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

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