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53 Don’t you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now? 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.

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Footnotes

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

53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?(A) 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled(B) 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,(C) and you did not arrest me.

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