Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled — the public teaching in the temple during the Jerusalem week established Jesus' accessibility and non-violent presence. You did not arrest me: the opportunity was available and was not taken. The garden arrest is therefore not a strategic success but the fulfillment of the scriptural pattern — the scriptures (Zechariah 13:7, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22) must be fulfilled.

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