Matthew 26:53
Good News Translation
Don't you know that I could call on my Father for help, and at once he would send me more than twelve armies of angels?

New Revised Standard Version
Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Contemporary English Version
Don't you know that I could ask my Father, and he would at once send me more than twelve armies of angels?

New American Bible
Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

and he.

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

Matthew 25:31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.

2 Kings 6:17 And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses, and chariots of fire round about Eliseus.

Daniel 7:10 A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power:

Jude 1:14 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints:

twelve.

Matthew 10:1,2 And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of diseases, and all manner of infirmities. . . .

legions.

6,200 foot and

300 horse, twelve of which would amount to

78,000 men.)

Luke 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Context
The Betrayal of Jesus
52Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels? 54How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done?…
Cross References
Matthew 4:11
Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

Mark 5:9
And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

Mark 5:15
And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.

Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

John 10:18
No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 18:36
Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.

Matthew 26:52
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