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And 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.
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Then saith Jesus unto him,
Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
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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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How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?
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In 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.
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But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
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And they that had taken Jesus led him away to [the house of] Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
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But Peter followed him afar off, unto the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.
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Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
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and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,
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and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.