53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
53 Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies - more, if I want them - of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready?
53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
53 Don't you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Matthew 26:53
Commentary on Matthew 26:47-56
(Read Matthew 26:47-56)
No enemies are so much to be abhorred as those professed disciples that betray Christ with a kiss. God has no need of our services, much less of our sins, to bring about his purposes. Though Christ was crucified through weakness, it was voluntary weakness; he submitted to death. If he had not been willing to suffer, they could not conquer him. It was a great sin for those who had left all to follow Jesus; now to leave him for they knew not what. What folly, for fear of death to flee from Him, whom they knew and acknowledged to be the Fountain of life!