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Matthew 26:55

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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.

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Matthew 26:55 in other translations

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.

Matthew 26:55 · American Standard Version

Matthew 26:55 in context

  1. 53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
  2. 54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
  3. 55In 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.
  4. 56But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”
    Then all the disciples left him and fled.
  5. 57Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.