Matthew 26:54

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

How [else] then should the Scriptures be fulfilled that this must happen [than what is taking place]?”

Cross References

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man is going [to die], but it is too bad for that person through whom the Son of man is turned over [to the Jewish leaders]! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Acts 1:16

[He said], “Brothers, it was necessary that the Scriptures be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke through King David about Judas, who guided the soldiers who came to arrest Jesus.

John 10:35

If God called those people, to whom His message came, “gods” (and Scripture cannot be set aside),

Matthew 21:42

Jesus [then] said to the leading priests and elders of the Jewish people, “Did you not ever read in the Scriptures [Psa. 118:22-23], ‘The building block rejected by the builders is the same one that was made the principal stone by which the entire building was aligned. This was planned by the Lord and is a marvelous thing to us’?