King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 26:55
“In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, ‹Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 26
53
‹Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?›
54
‹But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?›
55
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, ‹Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.›
56
‹But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.› Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
57
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
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