Matthew 26:54

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
But how	πῶς pōs	G4459	an interrogative particle of manner · particle — interrogative
then	οὖν oun	G3767	(adverbially) certainly · conjunction
shall	πληρωθῶσιν plērōthōsin	G4137	to make replete · verb — aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person plural
the scriptures	γραφαὶ graphai	G1124	a document · noun — nominative plural feminine
be fulfilled	πληρόω plēróō	G4137	to make replete
that	ὅτι hoti	G3754	demonstrative · conjunction
thus	οὕτως houtōs	G3779	in this way (referring to what precedes or follows) · adverb
it must	δεῖ dei	G1163	also deon deh-on' · verb — present active indicative, 3rd person singular
be	γενέσθαι;¶ genesthai	G1096	to cause to be ("gen"-erate) · verb — second aorist middle deponent infinitive

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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…
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…
Luke 24:25-26 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
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, w…
Psalms 22:1-31 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Isaiah 53:1-12 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
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 w…
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

John Gill on Matthew 26:54

But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled,.... That is, should Christ make such a request to his Father, and he should grant it, and an host of angels should be sent to rescue him, and he should be rescued by them; how then should the Scriptures, which speak of Christ's being taken, and led as a lamb to the slaughter, and of his various sufferings, and the circumstances of them, have their accomplishment? "declaring", as the Arabic version supplies, or as the Ethiopic version, "which say", that thus it must be; that the Messiah must be apprehended, and suffer, and die. The several parts of the sufferings of the Messiah are foretold in the writings of the Old Testament; the spirit of Ch…

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John Calvin on Matthew 26:51-56

Matthew 26:51-56 Matthew 26:51-56 Mark 14:47-52 Luke 22:49-53 51. And, lo, one of those who were with Jesus, stretching out his hand, drew his sword, and, striking the servant of the high priest, cut off his ear. 52. Then Jesus said to him, Put thy sword again into its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword. 53. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he will grant to me more than twelve legions of angels? 54. How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55. At that hour [215] Jesus said to the multitudes, You are come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Matthew 26:54

For Jesus to have resisted would have impeded the fulfillment of God’s saving work (see 16:21-23).

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The Church Fathers

This speech shows a mind willing to suffer; vainly would the Prophets have prophesied truly, unless the Lord asserts their truth by His suffering.
— Jerome ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

And He quiets their fears not thus only, but by reference to Scripture, How then shall the Scriptures he fulfilled that thus it must be?
— John Chrysostom ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Messiah — (Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. “Christos.” It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1…
Court · .COMPOSITION OF, AND MO — .COMPOSITION OF, AND MO
Meekness · OF JESUS — OF JESUS
Prisoners · Jesus — Jesus
Types · .The institutions ordained by Moses — .The institutions ordained by Moses

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).