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Matthew 26:53

American Standard Version

Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

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Matthew 26:53 in other translations

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 26:53 · World English Bible

Matthew 26:53 in context

  1. 51And behold, one of them that were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
  2. 52Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
  3. 53Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
  4. 54How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
  5. 55In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.