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Ether thinkest thou that I cannot now praye to my father and he shall geve me moo then .xii. legions of angelles?
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But how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.
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The same tyme sayd Iesus to the multitude: ye be come out as it were vnto a thefe with sweardes and staves for to take me. I sate daylie teachinge in the temple amoge you and ye toke me not.
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All this was done that the scriptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled.
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Then all the disciples forsoke him and fleed. And they toke Iesus and leed him to Cayphas the hye preeste where the Scribes and the Elders where assembled.
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And Peter folowed him a farre of vnto the hye prestes place: and went in and sate with the servauntes to se the ende.
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The chefe prestes and the elders and all the counsell sought false witnes agenste Iesus for to put him to deeth
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but founde none: in somoche that when many false witnesses cam yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses
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and sayd: This felowe sayde: I can distroye the temple of God and bylde it agayne in .iii. dayes.
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And the chefe preste arose and sayde to him: answerest thou nothinge? How is it yt these beare witnes ageynst the?
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But Iesus helde his peace: And the chefe Preeste answered and sayd to him: I charge the in the name of the lyvinge God that thou tell vs whether thou be Christ the sonne of God.