Matthew 26:56
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.”
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“But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 26:56 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Isaiah 44:26who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
- Lamentations 4:20The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Zechariah 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,against the man who is My Companion,declares the LORD of Hosts.Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
- Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
- Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- Matthew 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
- Mark 14:50Then everyone deserted Him and fled.
- John 16:32“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
- John 18:8“I told you that I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you are looking for Me, let these men go.”
- John 18:15Now Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he also went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.
- Acts 1:16“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
- Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- 2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
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