48And 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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And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Then 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? …
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. …
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-52)We have here the seizing of our Lord Jesus by the officers of the chief priests. This was what his enemies had long aimed at, they had often sent to take him ; but he had escaped out of their hands, because his hour was not come , nor could they now have taken him, had he not freely surrendered himself. He began first to suffer in his soul , but afterward suffered in his body, that he might satisf…
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