⁵³ⁱDo you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me ^jmore than twelve ^klegions of angels? ⁵⁴^lBut how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

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Cross references

i[John 10:18]
j[ch. 4:11; 2 Kgs. 6:17; Dan. 7:10; Luke 22:43; John 18:36]
k Luke 8:30
lSee ver. 24; ch. 1:22

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and he will provide me here and now with more than twelve legions of angels? How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly? But if I did, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that describe what must happen now?”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Or do you think that I cannot call upon my Father, and he would put at my disposal at once more than twelve legions of angels? How then would the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen in this way?”

KJV 1900King James Version

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

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