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In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, `As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;
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but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.
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And those laying hold on Jesus led [him] away unto Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together,
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and Peter was following him afar off, unto the court of the chief priest, and having gone in within, he was sitting with the officers, to see the end.
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And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,
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and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near,
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said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'
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And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?
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and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ -- the Son of God.'
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Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.'
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Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, -- `He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking;