Matthew 26:55

American Standard Version

In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

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Matthew 26:55 in other translations

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Matthew 26:55 · World English Bible

Matthew 26:55 in context

  1. 53Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
  2. 54How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
  3. 55In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.
  4. 56But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
  5. 57And they that had taken Jesus led him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.