Matthew 26:53
Douay-Rheims
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?
John Chrysostom
He not only soothed His disciples, by this declaration of punishment against His enemies, but convinced them that it was voluntarily that He suffered, Thinkest thou that I cannot pray to my Father, &c. Because He had shewn many qualities of human infirmity, He would have seemed to say what was incredible, if He had said that He had power to destroy them, therefore He says, Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father?
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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:51-54
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.