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54 How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say this must happen?”

55 At this point,[a] Jesus asked the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit?[b] Day after day I sat teaching in the Temple, yet you didn’t arrest me. 56 But all of this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

Then all the disciples deserted Jesus[c] and ran away.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:55 Lit. In that hour
  2. Matthew 26:55 Or revolutionary
  3. Matthew 26:56 Lit. him

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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