Matthew Chapter 26 verse 54 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 26:54

How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?
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BBE Matthew 26:54

But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?
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DARBY Matthew 26:54

How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?
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KJV Matthew 26:54

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
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WBT Matthew 26:54


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WEB Matthew 26:54

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
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YLT Matthew 26:54

how then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 54. - But how then (οϋν, i.e. if I now resist) shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be! There is no" but" in the original. In what way, Christ asks, shall God's determined counsel be accomplished, if you turn to the arm of the flesh, or if I use my Divine power to save myself? The will of God, as declared in Scripture, was that Jesus should be betrayed, seized, should suffer and die. Christ's will was one with the Father's and one with the Spirit's who inspired the Scripture, and therefore he must pass through each stage, undergo each detail, which the sacred volume specified. It was not merely that events were so arranged that they thus befell; nor merely that prophets of old foretold them; but there was some special moral duty and obligation in fulfilling them, which Christ, as one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, was minded to carry out in all perfection. Here was a ray of comfort for Peter and the other apostles. All was foreordained; its announcement in God's book proved it came from God, was under his control and ordering. Patience, therefore, and silent acquiescence were the duties now incumbent. "Be still, then, and know that I am God."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(54) How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled?--The words indicate what one may reverently speak of as the source of the peace and calmness which had come to our Lord's human soul out of the depths of its agony. All that was sharpest and most bitter was part of a pre-ordained discipline. Not otherwise could the Scriptures be fulfilled, which had painted, if we may so speak, the picture of the ideal Sufferer not less vividly than that of the ideal Conqueror and King. It was meet that He too should be made perfect through sufferings (Hebrews 2:10).