52Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
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And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
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.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 47-53)Satan, finding himself baffled in his attempts to terrify our Lord Jesus, and so to put him out of the possession of his own soul, betakes himself (according to his usual method) to force and arms, and brings a party into the field to seize him, and Satan was in them . Here is, I. The marking of him by Judas. Here a numerous party appears, and Judas at the head of them, for he was guide to them th…
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