MARK 14:48 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?”
Am I leading a rebellion, said Jesus, that you have come out with swords and clubs to capture me? — the question challenges the arrest's framing: the swords and clubs are appropriate for a violent revolutionary, not for the teacher who was in the temple daily. The military-style arrest communicates the authorities' fear of public resistance — they have come with force appropriate for a dangerous political agitator.
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