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Matthew 26:56

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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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  1. Matthew 26:54

    But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

  2. Matthew 26:55

    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.

  3. Matthew 26:57

    And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

  4. Matthew 26:58

    But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

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