Matthew 26:55
Good News Translation
Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, "Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

New Revised Standard Version
At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to the mob, "Why do you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like a criminal? Day after day I sat and taught in the temple, and you didn't arrest me.

New American Bible
At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple area, yet you did not arrest me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Are.

Mark 14:48-50 And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me? . . .

Luke 22:52,53 And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? . . .

I sat.

Mark 12:35 And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?

Luke 21:37,38 And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet. . . .

John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all the people came to him. And sitting down he taught them.

John 18:20,21 Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing. . . .

Context
The Betrayal of Jesus
54How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done? 55In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me. 56Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.…
Cross References
Matthew 21:23
And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority?

Matthew 26:47
As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

Mark 10:1
And rising up from thence, he cometh into the coast of Judea beyond the Jordan: and the multitude flocked to him again. And as he was accustomed, he taught them again.

Mark 12:35
And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say that Christ is the son of David?

Mark 14:49
I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

Luke 4:20
And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Luke 19:47
And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

Luke 20:1
And it came to pass that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together,

Luke 21:37
And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet.

John 7:14
Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

John 7:28
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.

John 8:2
And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all the people came to him. And sitting down he taught them.

John 8:20
These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

John 18:20
Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

Matthew 26:54
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