Luke 22:52
Good News Translation
Then Jesus said to the chief priests and the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come there to get him, "Did you have to come with swords and clubs, as though I were an outlaw?

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple police, and the elders who had come for him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus spoke to the chief priests, the temple police, and the leaders who had come to arrest him. He said, "Why do you come out with swords and clubs and treat me like a criminal?

New American Bible
And Jesus said to the chief priests and temple guards and elders who had come for him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs?

Jesus.

Matthew 26:55 In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Mark 14:48,49 And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me? . . .

captains.

Luke 22:4 And he went and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray him to them.

2 Kings 11:15 But Joiada commanded the centurions that were over the army, and said to them: Have her forth without the precinct of the temple, and whosoever shall follow her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest had said: Let her not be slain in the temple of the Lord.

John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.

Acts 5:26 Then went the officer with the ministers and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

Context
The Betrayal of Jesus
51But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had touched his ear, he healed him. 52And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? 53When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:47
As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

Luke 22:4
And he went and discoursed with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might betray him to them.

Luke 22:37
For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

Luke 22:51
But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had touched his ear, he healed him.

Luke 22:53
When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

Luke 22:51
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