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At that, one of the men with Yeshua reached for his sword, drew it out and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.
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Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword.
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Don't you know that I can ask my Father, and he will instantly provide more than a dozen armies of angels to help me?
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But if I did that, how could the passages in the Tanakh be fulfilled that say it has to happen this way?"
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Then Yeshua addressed the crowd: "So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion? Every day I sat in the Temple court, teaching; and you didn't seize me then.
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But all this has happened so that what the prophets wrote may be fulfilled." Then the talmidim all deserted him and ran away.
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Those who had seized Yeshua led him off to Kayafa the cohen hagadol, where the Torah-teachers and elders were assembled.
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Kefa followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the cohen hagadol; then he went inside and sat down with the guards to see what the outcome would be.
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The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin looked for some false evidence against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death.
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But they didn't find any, even though many liars came forward to give testimony. At last, however, two people came forward and said,
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"This man said, `I can tear down God's Temple and build it again in three days.'"