Matthew 26:47-56
1599 Geneva Bible
47 (A)And while he yet spake, lo, Judas one of the twelve came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, [a]from the high Priests and Elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him, had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he, lay hold on him.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, God save thee, Master, and kissed him.
50 [b]Then Jesus said unto him, [c]Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And behold, one of them which were with Jesus, stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high Priest, and smote off his ear.
52 [d]Then said Jesus unto him, Put up thy sword into his place: (B)for all that [e]take the sword, shall perish with the sword.
53 [f]Either thinkest thou, that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will give me more than twelve legions of Angels?
54 [g]How then should the (C)Scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that it must be so?
55 The same hour said Jesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thief, with swords and staves to take me: I sat daily teaching in the Temple among you, and ye took me not.
56 But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. (D)Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Matthew 26:47 Sent from the high Priests.
- Matthew 26:50 Christ is taken that we might be delivered.
- Matthew 26:50 Christ reprehendeth Judas tauntingly, and rebuketh him sharply, for he knew well enough for what cause he came.
- Matthew 26:52 Our vocation must be the rule of our zeal.
- Matthew 26:52 They take the sword to whom the Lord hath not given it, that is to say, they which use the sword, and are not called to it.
- Matthew 26:53 Christ was taken, because he was willing to be taken.
- Matthew 26:54 By this questioning he answereth a sly objection, for they might have asked him why he did not in this his great extremity of danger, call to his Father for aid: but to this he answereth by a question.
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