KJV King James Version
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
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Matthew 26:53
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
WEB World English Bible
Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
ASV American Standard Version
Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
dost thou think that I am not able now to call upon my Father, and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of messengers?
Surrounding context — Matthew 26
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out [his] hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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ἢG2228 · ēorδοκεῖςG1380 · dokeōto thinkὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatοὐG3756 · ounoδύναμαιG1410 · dunamaibe ableπαρακαλέσαιG3870 · parakaleōto plead/comfortτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατέραG3962 · patērfatherμου,G3165 · memeκαὶG2532 · kaiandπαραστήσειG3936 · paristēmito stand byμοιG3165 · memeἄρτιG737 · artinowπλείωG4183 · polusmuchδώδεκαG1427 · dōdekatwelveλεγιῶναςG3003 · legeōnLegionἀγγέλων;G32 · angelosangel
Cross-references
Matthew 4:11Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.2 Kings 6:17And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.Luke 8:30And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.Daniel 7:10A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.Matthew 25:31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:Jude 1:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,2 Thessalonians 1:7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,Matthew 10:1-2And when he had called unto [him] his twelve disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
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