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 in context
- 53Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
- 54How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
- 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.
- 56But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- 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.