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Matthew 26:55-61 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

55. Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, “Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

56. But all this has happened in order to make what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures come true.”Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

57. Those who had arrested Jesus took him to the house of Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the teachers of the Law and the elders had gathered together.

58. Peter followed from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the High Priest's house. He went into the courtyard and sat down with the guards to see how it would all come out.

59. The chief priests and the whole Council tried to find some false evidence against Jesus to put him to death;

60. but they could not find any, even though many people came forward and told lies about him. Finally two men stepped up

61. and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to tear down God's Temple and three days later build it up again.’ ”

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