World English Bible
Matthew 26:56
“But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.”
Verse in context — Matthew 26
54
How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?
55
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.
56
But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
57
Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
58
But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.
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