Matthew 26:54
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Matthew 26:54 in other translations
| BSB | But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?” |
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| WEB | How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?” |
| ASV | How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
| YLT | how then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?' |
| DARBY | How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be? |
| BBE | But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be? |
| Webster | But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
What does Matthew 26:54 mean?
Barnes' Notes
(x) "that thus" Lk 24:26,46
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 26:47-56
No enemies are so much to be abhorred as those professed disciples that betray Christ with a kiss. God has no need of our services, much less of our sins, to bring about his purposes. Though Christ was crucified through weakness, it was voluntary weakness; he submitted to death. If he had not been willing to suffer, they could not conquer him. It was a great sin for those who had left all to follow Jesus; now to…
Matthew 26:54 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 26:54
- Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
- Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
- Luke 24:25-26
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
- Acts 1:16
Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
- Psalms 22:1-31
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. …
- Isaiah 53:1-12
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. …
- Luke 24:44-46
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
- John 10:35
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
- Psalms 69:1-36
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. …
- Daniel 9:24-26
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lu 24:25,26,44-46; Joh 10:35; Ac 1:16
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Context
- 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?
- Matthew 26:54
But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
- 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.
Matthew 26:54 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Cómo, pues, se cumplirían las Escrituras, que así conviene que sea hecho? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comment donc seraient accomplies les écritures, qui disent qu’il faut qu’il en arrive ainsi? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie sollten denn die Schriften erfüllt werden, daß es also geschehen muß? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quomodo ergo implebuntur Scripturæ, quia sic oportet fieri? |