Matthew 26:53-54

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⁵³^[a]Either thinkest thou, that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will give me more than twelve legions of Angels?

⁵⁴^[b]How then should the ^(A)Scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that it must be so?

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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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