53. Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
54. How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
55. In that hour Yeshua said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.
56. But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”Then all the disciples left him and fled.
57. Those who had taken Yeshua led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
58. But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.
59. Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death;
60. and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
61. and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
62. The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”
63. But Yeshua held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
64. Yeshua said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
65. Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.